The photograph that will live in infamy: equal parts indignant, humiliating, resolute and spray-tanned. In many ways, the recent mugshot taken of former President Donald Trump in the wake of his fourth indictment is a poignant analogy for the future of American politics.
Editor's note: MisCONceptions is a column with four contributors. This article was written by Katherine Brown.
Editor’s note: MisCONceptions is a column with four contributors. This article was written by Nicholas Rishi.
Editor’s note: MisCONceptions is a column with four contributors. This article was written by Trent Bunker.
Editor’s note: MisCONceptions is a column with four contributors. This article was written by Katherine Brown.
Editor’s note: MisCONceptions is a column with four contributors. This article was written by Nicholas Rishi.
America is dying. Whether you believe it is ill due to climate change, rising bigotry and predatory billionaires, or moral degeneration, family breakdown and a loss of unity may vary depending on your political ideology. However, we fear that in a time of increasing polarization, marked by the demonization of the opposing side in echo chambers found on the right and left, Americans are failing to understand what those with opposing viewpoints truly believe.
As the night of the Nov. 2 election progressed and it became clear that Republican candidate and businessman Glenn Youngkin would defeat former Democratic Governor Terry McAuliffe in the race for governor of Virginia, talking heads and pundits were instantly tasked with diagnosing our tumultuous political moment. After all, the state has been relatively blue since the Obama presidency and yet a candidate with the endorsement of former President Donald Trump, whom the state rejected in the 2020 election, was able to scrape together a winning coalition of rural Republicans and suburban Democratic defectors.
