To sum up @pluralistic@mamot.fr 's essay of this day,
I can no longer delay sharing an observation I was saving for a book title and/or longread blog post :
"The Empire has No Wardrobe."
True Carneyism has never been tried. When Canadian PM Carney traveled to Davos to declare a "rupture" in the old order (admitting this old order was never great to begin with) he told us that there was no going back from Trumpism. The only way out of Trumpism was *through*:
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/11/09/brunch-is-canceled-forever/#woke-3-is-gonna-be-wild
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