I had a weird experience the other day, one I’m still trying to wrestle with and reconcile: a president I’ve hated for a decade signed an executive order based on a scandal [I reported on](https://xcancel.com/tracewoodgrains/status/1752091831095939471) a year ago.
It’s impossible for this scandal to be anything other than a partisan firestorm right now, and tension is incredibly high with everything going on, but with all of that I felt a certain duty to get the story on the record, and to tell it *right*. It’s not a pleasant story–it involves a decade of institutional failure at every level, and the “fix” Trump put in has frustrated and hurt many of the people who originally fought to bring the scandal to light–but I believe it’s the sort of story that we must honestly understand to make real progress.
The two choices for things like this cannot be “Sweep it under the rug” and “burn it all down.”
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Have you addressed or just mentioned somewhere the attacks on the female pilot? Because right now *that* is also a part of the reactionaries’ “anti-DEI” narratives.
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Great work Trace as usual. The takeaway from this period by centrists must be, “how can our institutions learn from the very real failures of the last 15 years without conceding the world to nihilistic arsonists”, not “we must dig in our heels and defend every excess of Good Team and deflect from our failings by pointing out things done by Bad Team”, and I think you are one of the people making the case for the former most effectively.
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Hey /r/neoliberal!
I had a weird experience the other day, one I’m still trying to wrestle with and reconcile: a president I’ve hated for a decade signed an executive order based on a scandal [I reported on](https://xcancel.com/tracewoodgrains/status/1752091831095939471) a year ago.
It’s impossible for this scandal to be anything other than a partisan firestorm right now, and tension is incredibly high with everything going on, but with all of that I felt a certain duty to get the story on the record, and to tell it *right*. It’s not a pleasant story–it involves a decade of institutional failure at every level, and the “fix” Trump put in has frustrated and hurt many of the people who originally fought to bring the scandal to light–but I believe it’s the sort of story that we must honestly understand to make real progress.
The two choices for things like this cannot be “Sweep it under the rug” and “burn it all down.”
Have you addressed or just mentioned somewhere the attacks on the female pilot? Because right now *that* is also a part of the reactionaries’ “anti-DEI” narratives.
Great work Trace as usual. The takeaway from this period by centrists must be, “how can our institutions learn from the very real failures of the last 15 years without conceding the world to nihilistic arsonists”, not “we must dig in our heels and defend every excess of Good Team and deflect from our failings by pointing out things done by Bad Team”, and I think you are one of the people making the case for the former most effectively.