one way to think about it is the electorate wanted Teddy Roosevelt and Donald Trump seemed the closest thing on offer.

the marginal voter was not voting on the basis of “issues”. they were choosing who best fit the role — in their imagination, by virtue of their parasocial attachments — of hero who can fix it.

parasociability is a tremendous challenge to contemporary theories of democracy.

“If the pattern of the past holds, the future won’t be majority-minority; it will be a white majority, where Spanish last names are common.” @jamellebouie.net, writing in 2014 democracyjournal.org/magazine/31/...

when the threshold is a supermajority and a clear majority supports, it is inaccurate to write “Florida voters have rejected”. Florida voters support, by a large margin, but fail to meet the 60% threshold required to amend the state constitution.

scab zombie needle. stay away.

not feeling great about being a floridian so far tonight.

today’s family outing.

i think the strike at the nyt tech guild is really moving the needle.

today is a day for heroes without capes.

i don’t want to jinx anything, but what if Wednesday morning we wake up to a country much better than we had thought it was?

what do you do when you are tired but not sleepy?

happy election day, to all who celebrate.

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god i hate that these people are still asking for money when it’s plainly too late to spend it. what do campaigns do with the surplus funds they amassed, once an election is past?

kind of surprised “the enemy within” hasn’t become a t-shirt tagline, like “nevertheless she persisted”.

“he never understood that he was a subject and not the sovereign.” @jamellebouie.net on Trump www.nytimes.com/2024/11/01/o... ht @ryanlcooper.com

the way you find out who will win an election is you hold one.

people who style themselves “truthtellers” are usually (at best) better characterized as oversimplifiers.

the etymology of “peer” is that everybody pees it’s a sacred bond that binds us all on fundamentally egalitarian terms.