Jane Coaston

Now, granted, Cash Patel just wants to watch hockey and hang out with his girlfriend.

And I, for one, support him doing that and not doing any actual work.

But the degree to which this administration and so many of its supporters want the power but want no responsibility, that is that small bean fascism of like, you want to be able to kill people, but you don't want people to be mad at you for killing people.

You want to believe as if your victimhood takes center stage, but also you have all of the power.

And so it's a real sense.

I was talking to the host of Pod Save the UK for the show that came out today.

And we were talking about how there's kind of an overarching sense of

That Democrats have to always be the adults, Democrats and progressives always have to be the adults.

Like there's a sense of like Trump is allowed to be a wheedling child and he's allowed to be a wheedling child.

And then you'll get the excuses like, well, Candy Crowley was mean to Mitt Romney.

Oh, yeah.

And I'm like, that was 14 years ago.

I have had it explained to me multiple times by people who worked on the Obama campaign.

And each time I'm like, I still don't understand what they're pretending to be mad about.

But I do think like that small bean fascism, it doesn't even have the chutzpah to be like, we are, we are, you know, it's like we are, but please don't be mad at us.

We'd be so sad if you were mad at us.

Like the most, I know like they're, you know, the whistles are so mean, but also like,

The ways in which people are describing the signal groups that protesters are using Minneapolis, which I'm like, this all sounds kind of like how you would organize, I don't know, a pretty decent bake sale at a private grade school.

They're like, oh, there are thousands of people on these signals and organizing drop points.

And then the photographs are like, it's like boxes of hot hands.