The civic legitimation rituals are going.

On an intellectual level I’ve thought for years that something like this could happen so the first week was a warm bath of vindication and victory laps, it’s actually now seeing it settle in to the patterns that’s uncanny.

Of course, you know me, it’s the little civic rituals that really throw me. Saw a tweet that was just like

Donald Trump is going to pardon a turkey

And I was like FUCK, that’s true.

Donald Trump is going to host an Easter egg roll for children

Donald Trump will throw out the opening pitch of Major League Baseball

Idea: blue and red tribes as priesthoods of the 1st and 2nd amendment.

Expand the parallel, “speech”, press"-> general right of expression, “arms”, “militia” -> general right of violence.

“The solution to bad (speech/violence) is more (speech/violence)”