Adam Serwer

So it's not true.

It has like a logical sense.

It's not true.

But it's also like just not true on the ground in Minneapolis.

What is so moving about the sort of neighborism there is that everybody says it doesn't matter who you are.

It doesn't matter what gender you are.

It doesn't matter what race you are.

It doesn't matter what religion you are.

You are my neighbor.

I will defend you.

And that is a level of commitment to social cohesion that I have yet to see from anybody in the entire MAGA coalition who all seem to be about stating these things, not so much as a matter of like principles they wanna see lived in the world, but as a question of like,

brand building and political identity, which is, I think, what J.D.

Vance is doing.

We're going to get masked men to shoot people dead in the street, and that's going to lead to social cohesion.

No, look, I mean, what they are doing is they are trying to come up with what sounds like a morally justifiable argument for violence against undesirables, people they want to leave the United States, people they want to force out of the United States by means of terror, whether or not they're actually citizens.

That's so masculine.

There's nothing like screaming I'm so hardcore while your voice rises an octave.

It's amazing.

Yeah, look, you know, I think part of the cognitive dissonance here is that, you know, here's Stephen Miller screaming about how hardcore he is.

But the people who are dying in defense of their ideals are people like Rene Goode,