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Nick Catoggio’s daily newsletter Boiling Frogs offers commentary suggesting that the era of political activism fueled by cultural grievances may be coming to an end. Catoggio argues that such activism tends to flourish in economically stable times when citizens can afford to focus on issues beyond basic economic concerns.

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Nick Catoggio, in his newsletter Boiling Frogs, argues that the era focused on cultural grievances in American politics may be coming to an end. He suggests this type of political activism is a luxury, emerging when economic stability allows people to focus on issues beyond basic needs like income and wealth distribution. According to Catoggio, as financial concerns become more pressing for Americans, the emphasis shifts from culture wars to addressing economic challenges. This perspective implies that in times of greater economic insecurity, the nation prioritizes practical issues over ideological ones.

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19 article(s) here · 0 carrying a prediction

🔮 It’s hard to do justice to his exchange yesterday with former special counsel Jack Smith, the man who would have prosecuted Donald Trump for multiple crimes if Americans hadn’t handed control of federal law enforcement over to the suspect.

2026-09-30 · assertive framing · Up Schmitt Creek

🔮 We might call that “Hegseth’s paradox” in honor of our defense secretary, who’s forever complaining about the low-T softness of those who serve under him when he’s not tongue-bathing the Florsheims of the man under whom he serves.

2026-09-24 · mixed framing · The Red’s Carpet

🔮 How racist can a party’s voters be if they’re willing to nominate a guy named “Vivek Ramaswamy” to be governor of Ohio?

2026-09-14 · assertive framing · To Hell With Assimilation

🔮 The last time it happened before this week was November 2021, when William Burns felt obliged to warn the Kremlin in person that we knew what it was planning for Ukraine.

2026-08-28 · assertive framing · World War 2.5

🔮 For instance, next month the president will roll out the red carpet for a nuclear-armed Asian communist dictator whose political enemies routinely end up in gulags.

2026-08-26 · assertive framing · He Went to Jared

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The gist of it is that a politics based on culture war is a kind of luxury, the sort of thing people fight about when their country is sufficiently well off that they don’t need to prioritize fighting about money.

framing: assertive · carried by 1 article(s) · first seen 2026-10-02

2026-10-02 · The Dispatch

The Truce Is Over · assertive framing

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You’re reading Boiling Frogs, Nick Catoggio’s daily newsletter featuring sharp, introspective commentary on populism, polarization, and the gradual erosion of American conservatism. asserted

You → read → conservatism

I’ve been toying lately with a hot take that the era of political activism driven by cultural grievances is ending. asserted

era → toy → grievances

they → base → money