Bad Polls Don’t Mean a Redeemed Nation

A few encouraging numbers can’t undo a decade of normalized bigotry, institutional failure, and political avoidance.

Waiting in line for the Orioles game knowing we should all be at a protest.

I’m not especially excited about the “No Kings” protest. Still, I want to give it the weight it deserves, especially for the people organizing, for those showing up, for the stubborn insistence that public action still matters.

But after nearly a decade immersed in political comm…