Clinton's etiolation of the Democratic base

the granular particulars of the psephology are important

not at all coterminous with surrender

Palestine is a notoriously over-researched place, but there is one gaping lacuna in the literature that concerns the very backbone of the Palestinian side, in whose absence ‘the conflict’ would have ended long ago: the resistance

the forces of resistance in this world: pushed into marginal strips and under the ground, denied access to the world of the living, invisible, rolled over by tanks and helicopters? And yet impossible to fully extirpate.

From time to time, uncoordinated sightings of real conditions emerged in candidate Trump’s unscripted monologues, in allusions to the parlous state of American infrastructure or the diminished life chances of rural whites

the symbolic force of Clinton’s campaign was vitiated by its political timidity

seems almost picayune compared to the other damage he threatens

This strangely socialistic subvention to neoliberalism not only encourages rural voters in the fantasy that they are rugged individualists uncontaminated by handouts, but jeapordises what little the US possesses in the way of social democracy

We experience the breach and inrush of monstrous apocalypse with a vivid affect. The horror of an end; a relief; a prurience; car-crash fascination on eschatological scale