Change Seems Possible Until It Doesn’t

Democrats Finally Discover Leverage After 2 Americans Are Killed

If the second Trump administration has been a metaphorical firefight over whether the U.S. is a democracy or a theocracy run by Christian nationalists, Democrats didn’t bring a hose—they brought a couple of water balloons to fuck around with. They’ve caved, insulted voters and each other, and given everyone brain-splitting migraines. And when Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent on January 7, they still didn’t say anything about…

Change Seems Possible Until It Doesn’t

Julia Azari: “The killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis yesterday feels like a significant turning point in what was already an awful and authoritarian situation. In some sense, the questions about abolishing ICE seem somewhat beside the larger point that the federal government has declared war on its citizens. ICE is just the mechanism.” “But sweeping political change actually happens at a granular, institutional and even mundane level. Questio…