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********** The Rise of Techno-authoritarianism

;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px”> No more “build it because we can.” No more algorithmic feedbags. No more infrastructure designed to make the people less powerful and the powerful more controlling. Every day we vote with our attention; it is precious, and desperately wanted by those who will use it against us for their own profit and political goals. Don’t let them.

 

***** What the Left Keeps Getting Wrong

“The stale politics of identity that tries to reduce even the glaringly inconvenient fact of Trump’s multiracial alliance to ‘white women’ stands in the way of overcoming the real democratic crisis,” @thomaschattwill writes:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/11/progressives-errors-2024-election/680563/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYQ0ZTjV0SIZXSSiawPyd0Qw&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

**** The Cumulative Toll of Democrats’ Delusions

Many Democrats assumed that Americans would ultimately not vote for Donald Trump. But this, Representative Ritchie Torres says, was pure delusion.

@powellAtlantic on the Democratic congressman who wasn’t surprised by the results of the election:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/11/democrats-lost-voters-ritchie-torres/680599/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYXxoZayrh8hJwv0fQGPUz0s&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

****** Why Liberals Struggle to Cope With Epochal Change

“If liberals are to respond effectively to the challenge of a new Trump administration, they will need to reflect critically on what happened in 1989, and discard the story they’ve always told themselves about it,” writes Ivan Krastev:

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/01/liberals-wrong-about-1989/681165/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYW5YYsIhfdQhN3kvuho98Ys&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social