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Shame: The Comeback Tour America Didn’t Know It Needed

How Trump, Musk, and a nation of shameless bystanders dragged us here — and why owning the embarrassment is the only way out.

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Kristoffer Ealy
Dec 18, 2025
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I was having a conversation with a couple of friends the other night about the people who didn’t vote for Kamala Harris last year. And somewhere between Trump’s latest racist tirade, the structural rot in the Democratic Party, Elon Musk’s ongoing crusade against reality, and the never-ending hand-wringing over the non-voters …

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Political science prof & political psych nerd. Writes about groupthink, power, & American nonsense. Sometimes funny on purpose. 📬 professorealy.substack.com 🐦 kmezdoesit.bsky.social
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