Among the most darkly interesting parts of the Twitter experience during the Trump era – which I'll define as 2015 until the Big Boy is but a ghost haunting Mar-a-Lago – has been watching people become red pilled in real time. Otherwise normal folks with whom you've interacted for years and years| Bad Faith Times
The right can invent alternate political realities to their blackened hearts' content, but without judges to play their sly bad faith game, none of it matters. None of it has teeth. This is why the right wing for the better part of a half century has been singularly focused on| Bad Faith Times
Don't let the computers tell you Jimmy Garoppolo is elite or the 2024 presidential contest is a coin flip| Bad Faith Times
Violent videos on Elon Musk's X designed to incite discriminatory passions are a recruiting tool for fascists.| Bad Faith Times
It can most generously be called a strain of laziness that runs through the conservative movement, or most accurately described as an everlasting authoritarian impulse: The deep yearning for struggle to end, to be done with politics, to stop with the messiness of representative democracy. Probably by now you had| Bad Faith Times
The love for their children was in every gesture, every word, every look. You could sense it – feel it – even from a distance. A mom and dad, dressed in what appeared to be used clothing – him in an oversized collared shirt with a small hole in the shoulder, wearing oversized| Bad Faith Times
The fascist call for revolution is, by default, in bad faith.| Bad Faith Times