[The online class] is convinced they need to save America from itself, and specifically, that they need to save America from 50% of its citizens… Those people are America! You can’t save American democracy from half the electorate. It doesn’t work that way. You have to deal with your fellow citizens. There’s no shortcut. There’s no one final victory where the music swells and lights come up and we all clap.
— Megan McArdle, “No, You Stole the Election! (Part 3),” Reflector
Executive Orders: A Skeptic’s View of the President’s Actions
With a new authoritarian at the helm, banal summaries of executive orders don’t cut it. So I let ChatGPT do the heavy lifting: provide a brief analysis of each week’s presidential orders from a radical left perspective. No blind trust, no left-wing group think—just a bullshit detector wary of authoritarianism.