Something I keep thinking about:

Marjorie Taylor Greene retired from Congress and criticized Trump, and I felt genuinely excited about it.

Not because something good happened. Because something bad stopped.

That's the feeling of a prevention mindset. Relief instead of joy. The bar dropping so gradually you don't notice until you're celebrating things that would have been unthinkable five years ago.

I wrote about this — what happened to our ideals, and what it actually costs us to lose sight of them.

New essay up today. ↑