I do dislike it being made all about Trump when he is exactly what you would expect.
Talarico gets it. I posted this recently and I think he gets it. I am not American, but as India will be clobbered by climate change, it is not a matter of indifference to when any crazy politician, whether it is Jay Bolsanaro or Trump, gets into office and breaks more and more shit:
https://www.salon.com/2026/03/09/democrats-should-go-all-in-on-texas-and-talarico/
Instead of portraying the existential fight in contemporary American politics as right versus left, Talarico describes it as a battle between top and bottom. Like an evangelist giving an altar call, his bid is invitational in nature. His refusal to place the blame solely on one person — Donald Trump — in favor of indicting “the system itself” has the potential to build a coalition of progressives, liberals, independent voters and disaffected conservatives. “Who was sitting in the front row at the inauguration?” he recently asked at a rally. “Who runs the 24-hour corporate media that treats news as entertainment? Who owns the algorithms that keep us angry and divided? A handful of billionaires have redesigned our politics for their own profit.”
I wish Talarico well. His youth is also a plus. I realized recently looking at Epstein and other garbage that it has little to do with ageism..I am an older woman battling loathesome systems myself. Someone like Alexabdr Wang superceding the only ai scientist I really trust, Prof Yan Lecun, is s bad sign.
But it is a totally different situation with our power elite, far too many of whom have far too many unsavory entanglements.
For survival it would be best for honest young people, who will have to contend with a very corrupt system as they try to build back better, to compromise minimally to avoid getting corrupted and bend only to unavoidable pragmatic considerations.
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