I spent the first half of my writing career calling out biased left-wing experts, the flood swept all those people away, and now we’re ruled by germ-theory-denialists and Waffle-House-teleporters. Not a day goes by that I don’t want the old biased experts back. To paraphrase Cormac McCarthy, you never know what worse institutions your bad institutions have saved you from.

wtf am i reading https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/orban-was-bad-even-though-we-dont ~ Orban was bad, even though we don't have a perfect word for his badness

As for Trump, I spent his whole first term low-key rolling my eyes at people saying he wanted to destroy democracy. Then we got the 2020 election, the Georgia racketeering case, and January 6, and I sent in my Apology Form.