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A Leaking American Dream - by Jesse Callahan Bryant

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Twitter was a chorus of right-wingers I follow calling for a civil war and saying some shit about woke and trans people; I couldn’t even follow anymore. I DM’d a thoughtful right-winger who I like, and he said if nothing came of this, it would be a failure of organizing. I asked him what he wanted to come of this. I still haven’t gotten a response. I remembered how a few months ago, when pressed by the conservative reporter Ross Douthat about why the administration was defunding mental health resources and asked about how that fit into his Catholic social teaching, JD Vance fumbled and couldn’t find a response. Over on BlueSky people were either saying some coy version of “he deserved it” or condemning political violence or referencing the hypocrisy of how dismissive the whole right was when the Speaker of the Minnesota House and her husband were assassinated recently by a guy dressed up as a police officer. To be honest, I couldn’t even remember her name. Then there was the racial ang

A Leaking American Dream Jesse Callahan Bryant Sep 12, 2025 9 1 Share I watched the Charlie Kirk video immediately after it happened. He was dead. It wasn’t close. Twitter was a chorus of right-wingers I follow calling for a civil war and saying some shit about woke and trans people; I couldn’t even follow anymore. I DM’d a thoughtful right-winger who I like, and he said if nothing came of this, it would be a failure of organizing. I asked him what he wanted to come of this. I still haven’t gotten a response. I remembered how a few months ago, when pressed by the conservative reporter Ross Dou

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