Be Careful: We're Winning

Something has changed in America. There’s a wind shift and a sea state, both more promising and more perilous than before.

You can see it in the polling crosstabs that the MAGA consultants pretend not to read too closely. You can feel it in the way Republican members are suddenly racing for the exits and seeking more satisfactory employment at the local chicken processing plant or working with more dignity as the piano player at the local brothel.

You can feel it in the forced snippiness and over-torqued smiles at White House briefings, stretching just a little too tightly across Botoxed faces. You can see it when the Fox panels realize mid-bit they’re mocking the victims of sexual assault in the Epstein case. You could smell it in the rank musk of fear under Pam Bondi’s hateful gymnastics before the House Oversight Committee last week. You can see it in the dead eyes, slack posture, and gravid jowls of a failing and flailing President.

For the first time in a long time, the pro-democracy coalition in this country has the wind at its back.

And that’s exactly when things get dangerous.