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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Texas

 Amanda Marcotte's reflection on Uvalde is particularly good and important. We focus - rightly - on the policy outcomes surrounding guns, but the GOP has launched a full scale assault on other forms of communal expectations that might prevent shit like this from happening over and over and over again.

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