Disclaimer: There is more to this first part of a piece, but it’s for subscribers only. This post is not about the non-free part.

A newsletter on U.S. politics and history - and the ongoing struggle over how much democracy, and for whom, there should be in America

Anti-authoritarian “neighborism” and cross-racial solidarity from below are a massive problem for the regime, exposing Trumpism’s structural weaknesses and ideological blind spots

A window into the weaknesses of the MAGA regime, a case study of the potential limits of violent authoritarianism, and a reminder of what democratic solidarity can achieve.

The thing is: The argument that America had undergone a massive rightward shift was less a factual contention and more an ideological assertion, an article of faith. It has proven to be a stubbornly resistant myth that is exceedingly hard to kill.