What I’m Reading on Nov. 15, 2024
Opinion | This Is the Dark, Unspoken Promise of Trump’s Return - The New York Times
For those bewildered by why so many Americans apparently voted against the values of liberal democracy, Balint Magyar has a useful formulation. “Liberal democracy,” he says, “offers moral constraints without problem-solving” — a lot of rules, not a lot of change — while “populism offers problem-solving without moral constraints.” Magyar, a scholar of autocracy, isn’t interested in calling Donald Trump a fascist. He sees the president-elect’s appeal in terms of something more primal: “Trump promises that you don’t have to think about other people.”
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And now, five months in, she’s hitting the giant erase button. It was just a dream; Bobby Ewing wasn’t actually dead. Except this isn’t a prime-time soap opera trying to write its way out of a jam. This all actually happened, and no one is going to forget it.