🔗 Ryan Broderick on hopeful election pragmatism

I’ll put this disclaimer here one last time. We are still early. Anything can and probably will happen. But I will also say this: It’s ok to feel good right now. There are a million ornery leftists with user names like ThePostsEnjoyer, DSASimp, and BigNaturalsTankie who listened to too many podcasts and now can’t make the chemicals in their brain necessary to feel hope and they are going to continue to screech online that everything is 2016 forever. You should ignore these people as hard as you can for the next three months. They said Biden wouldn’t drop out. They said Trump’s assassination attempt would win him the election (I truly did forget it happened). And they said that Harris would pick Shapiro. Is Harris a perfect candidate? Of course not. The perfect candidate can not and, in a democracy, should not exist. But it is also not cringe to feel optimistic. It is not cringe to imagine something better than the deranged culture wars we have had to endure for the last decade. And even if Harris does shit the bed in the next three months and Trump somehow wins, it won’t have been cringe to say you went down swinging, letting yourself believe this might work. – Garbage Day