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0 of 27 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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I waited a full week.
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I → wait → ?
You’re welcome.
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You → ’re → ?
Last Friday Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen—the CEO and executive editor of Axios, prominent journalists considered “thought leaders” in D.C. and beyond—had a message for America: Chill the eff out.
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VandeHei → consider → eff
Voters were unambiguous on Tuesday: Don’t B.S. us.
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Voters → b.s. → us
Don’t say you’ll lower prices and end wars and corruption, then do the opposite.
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you → say → opposite
It’s really that simple.
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It → ’ → ?
This isn’t so different from when Americans told Democrats not to B.S. them about Joe Biden’s health, or about the words they should use, or social behaviors they should adopt.
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they → tell → words
Why it matters:
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it → matter → ?
Most Americans agree broadly on most things, most of the time.
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Americans → agree → time
They want competent politicians to focus on issues that meaningfully impact their lives.
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that → want → lives
Like clockwork, every two years, Americans feel the party in power fails to deliver this — so they punish the incumbents at the polls.
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they → feel → polls
Politicians and some journalists tend to treat the American people as dopes and dupes who don’t get what’s happening in front of their faces.
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what → tend → faces
In an age when people trust institutions less all the time, our institutions held.
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institutions → trust → institutions
Courts restrained executive-branch excess.
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Courts → restrain → excess
The press kept doing its job.
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press → keep → job
Voters did theirs.
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Voters → do → theirs
But for all the hand-wringing that America is crumbling, that democracy is fading, or elections are eroding, the system worked.
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system → crumble → wringing
Remember: most Americans are normal and resilient.
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Americans → remember → ?
We should celebrate that.
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We → celebrate → that
Despite it all, America works.
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America → work → it
Imagine getting drunk, driving your car off a cliff, crawling out of the burning wreckage missing your left arm, and saying,
“I didn’t die?
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I → imagine → arm
Let’s celebrate!”
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’s → let → ?
You can read the whole stupid thing if you want to—it’s only 600 words.1
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it → read → thing
But it’s nonsense designed to convince us that the last ten years were normal, that nothing dangerous took place, that nothing important has been broken, and that the people who spent the last decade fighting against Trump’s authoritarian attempt were overwrought alarmists.
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who → ’ → attempt
I’m seeing a lot of this sentiment out there from normie elites.
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I → see → elites
So let’s take this Pollyanna bullshit apart, brick by brick.
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’s → let → brick
Because left unchallenged, it offers a dangerous, poisonous lesson.
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it → leave → lesson
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