{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "It's like the COVID stuff was designed to abrade off Democrats whose loyalty to the team is weaker than their loyalty to...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/673039670522888192/", "html": "<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"/post/672953363992903680/\" target=\"_blank\">kontextmaschine</a>:</p><blockquote><p>It&rsquo;s like the COVID stuff was <i>designed</i> to abrade off Democrats whose loyalty to the team is weaker than their loyalty to expert-class moralizing safetyism, it&rsquo;s <i>perfect</i>, unreal</p></blockquote>\n<p>Few things better than watching a doomed cause roll by and people who suck investing the entirety of their energy and identity on the losing side.</p><p>As recently as 2015 my historically informed sense that of <i>course</i> America was going to reflex from this was fighting with the fact I couldn&rsquo;t <i>possibly</i> imagine how, but then the incarnated spirit of the 1980s came down an escalator and I realized it&rsquo;s rubber-banded</p>"}