“the authoritarian ratchet grinds ceaselessly on, with anti-authoritarians helpless to stop it whether we ‘win’ in Washington or not, with the way one group of anti-authoritarians accuses another group of anti-authoritarians of being complicit ‘shitlibs,’ and with that group accusing the first group of sole responsibility for every loss to the Republicans since the time when convention power brokers smoked backroom cigars.” @Rickperlstein americanprospect.bluelena.io/i