If you don’t have equally strong allergic reactions to the words woke and based, you’re part of the reason the culture war continues

It feels extremely unfair to tell anybody from “flyover” states to be gracious now after 100 years of progressive rule but I think it’s much better for this to be true in a Caesarian way. 

The Optimates vs the Populares has to die. The US desperately needs a renewed national unity that’s not predicated on opposition but on a new frontier

There’s a Catonian counterfactual where Rome just dies, but no Populares counterfactual where they punish the Optimates…I don’t know how much faith anybody should have that Trump will genuinely think of libs as “his people” as much as MAGA people