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This Zohran Could Be Your Life

Casey Baskin

Today we bid adieu to Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Crossfit psycho who bewitched America with her homemade stew of Qanon zingers and blood libel. In her waning (?) days, she somehow became a member of the anti-Trump Resistance and spoke out against the skyrocketing cost of living and mindless foreign wars. How did we get here?

Well, Trump bragged recently that he got us out of eight wars and about to be another, seemingly mangling his train of thought and syntax about his intentions to invade Venezuela. How can you get out of a war, a reasonable person might ask, without getting into one? Just think about it. Think.

It has been an odd few weeks for the team here at Tropics of Meta. While the U.S. still circles the drain of authoritarianism, red shoots of optimism have sprouted up. (Ask Olivia Nuzzi and Ryan Lizza if they ever met a mixed metaphor they didn’t like.) There’s Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of a city the size of about fourteen-and-a-half Wyomings, and a political talent of seemingly inexhaustible charm. In Atlanta, voters elected Kelsea Bond, a dedicated DSA activist, to its city council. It almost feels like the Progressive Era old days, when a socialist could become mayor of Milwaukee. But we, fair citizens, are hunting bigger game.

There has been a lot of media buzzing and punditry about Trump reaching his dusk time, when his political pull is not what it used to be. Semi-sane members of Congress and other elected officials realize that the big guy won’t be around forever, and they might have some self-interest in opposing whatever nervous tics spring out of his Filet-o-Fish-muddled mind. Of course, this turn is cynical in the utmost. Courage might come last, but we’re happy to give it a seat at the table.

American politics and culture have been stuck in a tug-of-war for years now, with each side maneuvering for a marginal pop of advantage. Where we go from here is impossible to predict. However, if the equally impossible bubble of crypto and AI is any indication, things will get real interesting, real soon.

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