Apocalyptic Exceptionalism: the aggressively negative and oftentimes ahistorical belief that OUR generation is the one that’s doomed. Things are bad, most certainly, but the world’s been ending since way before any of us were born and things have been totally fucked in other eras.
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jamelle
a lot of you seem to basically believe that politics is over, history has ended and the absence of legal or electoral consequences for trump means that he is the only person with agency. you all are recapitulating the basic conceit of trump’s alleged invincibility, but from the center left
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So: beware the merchants of despair and be self-aware enough to know when you’re becoming one of them.