In the time of “Dark Brandon,” liberals got just a little bit meaner.
Everything we were led to believe about American politics proved to be sublimely counterfeit on the evening of Nov. 8, 2022. The midterms were supposed to be the crucible of a fiery MAGA rebuke to the Biden/Harris mandate. A campaign apparatus built upon delusional transphobic panic and a near-fetishistic obsession with the so-called “crime wave” would whip our citizenry into a frenzy and carry Republicans to the Senate and the House.
In the aftermath, I—and so many other progressives—engaged in one of our favorite rituals of this confused young decade: Seeking out the delectable catharsis afforded only by the consumption of raw MAGA cope.Yes, “cope.” As in, “coping.” In years past, the word was used sympathetically, to describe anyone’s attempt to steel themselves through psychic or physical pain. You might “cope” through stress, or a breakup, or a nasty rolled ankle.
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