Rebecca Traister

And so I think of that as like a period that is analogous to where we are right now in a very real and meaningful way. Yeah.

And so I think of that as like a period that is analogous to where we are right now in a very real and meaningful way. Yeah.

And so I think of that as like a period that is analogous to where we are right now in a very real and meaningful way. Yeah.

But this is what you just described that the failure I want to I want to take this. I hope I can make this make sense. What you just described about the resistance to pretending that this thing hasn't happened to being like, no, that can't have happened. I would say that that describes exactly where our current victors, right? The American right.

But this is what you just described that the failure I want to I want to take this. I hope I can make this make sense. What you just described about the resistance to pretending that this thing hasn't happened to being like, no, that can't have happened. I would say that that describes exactly where our current victors, right? The American right.

But this is what you just described that the failure I want to I want to take this. I hope I can make this make sense. What you just described about the resistance to pretending that this thing hasn't happened to being like, no, that can't have happened. I would say that that describes exactly where our current victors, right? The American right.

I don't even want to talk about this in partisan terms, Republicans and Democrats. I want to talk about like the American right, the ascendant, like backlash, white supremacist, hetero masculinity, blah, blah, blah, right? That whole thing, the punitive, whatever. What you just described, which was the refusing to acknowledge the victories and just complaining, whining, this was unfair.

I don't even want to talk about this in partisan terms, Republicans and Democrats. I want to talk about like the American right, the ascendant, like backlash, white supremacist, hetero masculinity, blah, blah, blah, right? That whole thing, the punitive, whatever. What you just described, which was the refusing to acknowledge the victories and just complaining, whining, this was unfair.

I don't even want to talk about this in partisan terms, Republicans and Democrats. I want to talk about like the American right, the ascendant, like backlash, white supremacist, hetero masculinity, blah, blah, blah, right? That whole thing, the punitive, whatever. What you just described, which was the refusing to acknowledge the victories and just complaining, whining, this was unfair.

That actually describes, I mean, we could do this on any kind of scale, the last 50 to 70 years of the American right. And everything that I heard in that Hegseth room that I hear is actually... just bitching and moaning about losses that occurred in the middle of the last century that they have never gotten over. And then they haven't actually learned how to do real leadership, right?

That actually describes, I mean, we could do this on any kind of scale, the last 50 to 70 years of the American right. And everything that I heard in that Hegseth room that I hear is actually... just bitching and moaning about losses that occurred in the middle of the last century that they have never gotten over. And then they haven't actually learned how to do real leadership, right?

That actually describes, I mean, we could do this on any kind of scale, the last 50 to 70 years of the American right. And everything that I heard in that Hegseth room that I hear is actually... just bitching and moaning about losses that occurred in the middle of the last century that they have never gotten over. And then they haven't actually learned how to do real leadership, right?

From like, whatever you want to talk about, an actual conservative point of view, a fiscally conservative point of view, even a socially conservative point of view that isn't just mired in These people can't have won inclusion in our power. The redistribution of power to people besides a certain set of wealthy, white, mostly male, right? Like that is unacceptable to us.

From like, whatever you want to talk about, an actual conservative point of view, a fiscally conservative point of view, even a socially conservative point of view that isn't just mired in These people can't have won inclusion in our power. The redistribution of power to people besides a certain set of wealthy, white, mostly male, right? Like that is unacceptable to us.

From like, whatever you want to talk about, an actual conservative point of view, a fiscally conservative point of view, even a socially conservative point of view that isn't just mired in These people can't have won inclusion in our power. The redistribution of power to people besides a certain set of wealthy, white, mostly male, right? Like that is unacceptable to us.

And we are whining about it. And I sat there through those hearings, through the hearing last week. And just, I think that stands in for a lot of the other stuff, listening to the sort of platform that these people have come to their victory on. Okay. And it is, it is not future leadership. It is not innovation. It is fury at battles that were lost several generations ago.

And we are whining about it. And I sat there through those hearings, through the hearing last week. And just, I think that stands in for a lot of the other stuff, listening to the sort of platform that these people have come to their victory on. Okay. And it is, it is not future leadership. It is not innovation. It is fury at battles that were lost several generations ago.

And we are whining about it. And I sat there through those hearings, through the hearing last week. And just, I think that stands in for a lot of the other stuff, listening to the sort of platform that these people have come to their victory on. Okay. And it is, it is not future leadership. It is not innovation. It is fury at battles that were lost several generations ago.

And that's one of the things I keep thinking about as they, you know, I listened last week to stuff about how this new it was specific to the candidate who's going to be our secretary of defense, but it was also obviously more broadly about how they want to present. I heard about a warrior ethos. There are no more soldiers.

And that's one of the things I keep thinking about as they, you know, I listened last week to stuff about how this new it was specific to the candidate who's going to be our secretary of defense, but it was also obviously more broadly about how they want to present. I heard about a warrior ethos. There are no more soldiers.