I try hard not to get upset about the collapse of the US. Today’s news run -of-the-mill. Trump admin committing multiple crimes that would have justified impeachment in the past - murder, corrupt use of the pardon power, bribery, etc - not to mention renaming the Institute of Peace after himself.

But my Substack feed is full of people linking to a piece by Harpers letter signatory Matt Yglesias in which he denounces a bunch of ultra-obscure lefties who want to call the US “Turtle Island”.