Being Right: Talking About Politics in the New Year and The Late Bus

Talking About Politics in the New Year

I told my parents the morning the fascists stormed the Capitol that this was going to happen. My mom had just asked me what Trump’s next move was.

It took me a moment to actually say violence. Because of course that was his next move. Not shooting someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue, not personal violence, don’t be ridiculous. Still, he controls the bomb of white rage that he has bound and rebound to American identity with an unprecedented volume of…