Tag: senate trial


  • The Slow Coup of “So What”

    February 2019 is not defined by one scandal, but by a habit: the national shrug. “So what” has become a governing posture, turning oversight into hostility and misconduct into background noise. Democracies don’t fail only through dramatic ruptures. They fail when standards become tribal weapons and consequences become optional.

  • The Center Cannot Hold, but It Can Be Rebuilt

    December 2019 closes with the House voting to impeach President Trump and the Senate poised for a trial whose ending seems prewritten. But the real stakes are larger than one outcome. The question is what we will tolerate, what precedents we will normalize, and whether a republic can survive an attention economy that rewards contempt…