Dispatches from the Empire


There’s a storm coming. We all know it. And yet Americans are pretending that everything is normal.

Donald Trump is going to be the nominee. In November 2024, tens of millions of Americans will vote for him. The only uncertainty is whether or not he will eke out enough votes in a handful of states to carry the Electoral College.

Even if you are highly confident that Trump will lose, how confident are you? Put a number on that, for me. Do you think Biden has a 9-in–10 chance of being re-elected?

Now answer me this: Would you get onto an airplane if I told you that it had a 1-in–10 chance of crashing?