Liberty-washing: the practice of selectively invoking the language of liberty, democratic restoration, or rule of law to legitimize coercive foreign action, while disregarding sovereignty, international legal constraints, or comparable liberties at home.

Jonathan Woolley, on Trump as the big-daddy boss archetype.

Oh you'll go outside again, work at a job, hate the president. But that old world is gone, let it go and prepare for the new.

From Shane Burley: "white supremacy exists not external to the class, but as a perversion of its own interests."

On liberalism's crisis and its nationalist solution.