365 12/29

 

That, in turn, requires a reckoning not only with the damage Trumpism

has inflicted on the public sphere but also with the conditions 

that made him so effective.

365 6/30

All these intermittent states of exception rest on the fundamental structural state of exception

that asserts the power of white men over all others. 

Trump emerged not as an exception to this history but as its logical consequence.

365 6/24

In a representative democracy, a politician's primary audience is their voters...

In an autocracy, the politician's primary audience is the autocrat himself,

because he is the patron who apportions power and influence.