The author comes across as a brainwashed simpleton. Probably why she works for The Atlantic. She got this right:
Twitter is a cesspool full of unreasonable people.
But then we have gems like this:
Generally speaking, the left-leaning rhetorical response to the pandemic seems out of line with stated Democratic values.
The response, rhetorical or otherwise, is always about acquisition of power at the expense of the individual. As Rahm Emanuel said in 2008 and again in 2020, "Never allow a crisis to go to waste".
Finally, this little pearl of leftist "logic":
None of this has shaken my support for the Democratic agenda, which I still endorse wholesale. What I’ve lost is my trust that the party is truly motivated to act in the interests of those they claim to serve.
If you can't trust that the party acts in your interest, how can you support their agenda wholesale? Seems to me that mass formation psychosis has affected leftists for much longer than the general population.
The author comes across as a brainwashed simpleton. Probably why she works for The Atlantic. She got this right:
But then we have gems like this:
The response, rhetorical or otherwise, is always about acquisition of power at the expense of the individual. As Rahm Emanuel said in 2008 and again in 2020, "Never allow a crisis to go to waste".
Finally, this little pearl of leftist "logic":
If you can't trust that the party acts in your interest, how can you support their agenda wholesale? Seems to me that mass formation psychosis has affected leftists for much longer than the general population.