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Having cast himself as an outsider and underdog during the campaign, Trump struggles with this new reality. He still tweets about the legitimacy of his election and about being attacked by a malicious press. Long after no woman in this country can get an abortion and the coastlines are flooded and …

But trolls also make a mistake: they believe there is truth in taboo thoughts because they appear taboo. When they see that their statements are seen as dangerous—that black people are stupid, bad, or unworthy, or that men are more persecuted than women—they confuse liberal society’s attempts to …

[...] There is a reason right-wing trolling is more effective than its left-wing equivalent: trolling that harnesses the power of taboo—the most ancient, retrograde, collectively unconscious stuff of sex, the family, the species—is more effective than trolling toward enlightenment. And to indulge a…

The goal is not merely to bring back the social welfarism of the past. It is to create an actual left majority—cross-racial and class-conscious—that has a clear agenda serving its interests and, just as vitally, the bargaining power institutionally to pursue those interests. To move past the moribu…

THE UNITED STATES is in a remarkable place: for the first time, we are living in a truly post-cold-war political environment. For those on the center-left and center-right, there remains a desperate hope that if Trump were to be removed from the scene, through impeachment or defeat, the US could so…