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- We wait for a politics that isn’t based on media-generated, saturated, propagated dualisms in vain.
- Trump wants prosecution because he has a prosecution complex. Democrats have closed the circle for him, confirmed the delusion.
- Politically, Trump’s weakness has always been his pathological need for adoration. One imagines with more realpolitik, Democrats could have passed legislation that they might never have passed, otherwise, with a Republican senate — but they haven’t.
- Politics didn’t become reality TV: TV became more like politics.
- The first Democrat to fire all their consultants would get my vote. Conversely, I would never vote for Buttigieg simply because I would never vote for anyone who proudly worked for McKinsey.
- The federal government ought recognize companies like Google and Facebook for what they are: political states operating on top of the grid of the American state, rent free, so to speak.
