This Surprise Started With Another One: How Similar Trump & Biden Had Become
The public’s engagement with the 2024 presidential election has been one of the most cynical and checked-out in modern American history. Trump’s cynicism has been more obvious, for longer — he is attracting millions of disaffected Americans who believe our ideals of representative governance should be tossed aside. His attempts to refuse a peaceful transfer of power have attracted cynical people who have fully abandoned trust in the system itself. Trump’s cynicism is the chaotic, will-to-power kind — “the system isn’t for us, so we’ll remake it in our image, or destroy it.”

Fuddy-duddy

A person who is super old-fashioned and doesn’t want anything to do with modern trends would be called this.

The Democrats did something!!!

Yesterday was thrilling. I don’t just mean this in a too-online, coconut-pilled, “brat”-memed, collective-internet-hysteria way (though I’m also guilty of this. Please don’t look at my Twitter DMs).

I mean it’s actually been civically thrilling. An idea, that for weeks felt like whispering into the wind, has actually come true: An unexpected coalition of voters, party leaders, elected officials, public opinion, and mega-donors have successfully persuaded President Biden to drop out of the 2024 presidential race. Despite all odds — and truly, there were so many — the Democrats responded to the people! The system has worked as intended

Gobbledygook

While this might sound like gross food, it actually means the same thing as the word “gibberish.”

I’m the only person that I should like and know thoroughly

Fuddy-duddy

A person who is super old-fashioned and doesn’t want anything to do with modern trends would be called this.

Festooned

This has nothing to do with cartoons and everything to do with decor and how a place is decorated.

Let your light shine bright so the other weirdos can find you

Dollop

This describes a quantity of something, usually food.