-The dork Star Wars cantina of famous biographers
-Jefferson’s hypocrisy and the impossibility of paragon standards
-Lincoln was not an abolitionist
-The Howard Zinnification of American history
-Ambiguity as the ideological propagandist’s mortal enemy
-The true (New Testament) saint of America
-George H.W. Bush’s blunt admission
-This president would cut your throat for a vote, then be the first to call 911
-Exhaustion as a strategy, and the establishment’s failure to meet the moment
-Autocratic narcissism and the turn toward political sadism
-Despair is a sin
-Political loss as seasonal, not existential
-What will the next side do with inherited expanded executive power?
-14th Amendment redemption clauses as high-level nerd porn
-Amusing ourselves to death in a visual-media politics
-Katie Britt’s private doubt, and the ecosystem that manufactured it
-Lincoln couldn’t write a bad sentence; Reagan could land the line
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