How Turbo-Wokism broke America – UnHerd

More troublesome, however, than the sight of America once again shedding its skin, is the shape of the American Republic to come and the question of whether it will be a republic at all. Since the end of the Cold War, America has transformed itself from a country in which most citizens proudly imagined themselves to be middle class into a bi-coastal oligarchy. The hallmarks of this new republic s politics are the sorts of pathologies that used to be associated with the countries to America s south: a wildly unequal distribution of wealth, choking bureaucracy, paranoid mass politics, the weaponisation of the security apparatus, and the merger of monopoly capital and invasive state bureaucracies.

via unherd.com

Yes, it’s discouraging. But on the upside, well, you can just ignore it…