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Freddie Deboer: The Nihilism of the Left and the Optimism that Must Replace It

From the New World

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The Easiest Victories in Politics

I think that the left right now, I was just complaining about this recently, the rise of doomerism as a mass phenomenon within the American left. It's like everybody is in this competition to be the most bitter and I don't personally think that that is useful obviously. But I also think that it's just kind of childish and self-centered, right? Like the point of politics was never to make you feel good about the possibilities of politics,.

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