Something maybe not obvious is that outside downtown (and I almost never go west of the river) there’s less signs of leftist presence in Portland than ever since Trump was elected. The fliers are fraying and not being replaced, the triple-arrow antifa graffiti gives way to apolitical tagging

Between the energy sink for the caremad, the fact that so many people have free time and unemployment pay, and the “ah, fuck it” effect of coronavirus fatalism and them not rounding up junkies, I haven’t seen this Portlandia chill in a while