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The Public Wants a Reckoning, Not Another Performance
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The Public Wants a Reckoning, Not Another Performance

The Real Crisis Isn’t Anger. It’s Meaning.

Apr 29, 2025
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Have you felt it, too? The sense that something essential is missing — even when the Democrats seem to be "fighting" in exactly the way the political consulting class has long insisted they must. The sense that even when Cory Booker stands for 25 hours delivering a marathon speech, when Jasmine Crockett goes viral for grilling a Trump official, or when …

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