Ryan Grim

"[About the 2024 presidential election:] People have said that the most consequential thing here was Joe Biden offering this debate in June. I don't think that's right. The most consequential thing, and a mistake, was Trump accepting it. If Trump had said "Look, I don't like these conditions. It's fake Tapper. No audience. It's rigged. You're gonna cut my mic. I'm not doing this. We're not going to debate until September." then the Democratic elites would have spent June through September lying about [Joe Biden's] condition and capacity again, and then in September he would have gone into the debate, worse probably than June because it's degenerative and it's getting worse, and he would have just completely fallen apart, and at that point there is no taking him off the ticket, and then Trump from there coasts to an absolute landslide victory. So the mistake was not Biden offering the debate. The mistake was Trump accepting it. But hey, American hero, he did it for us, 'cus now we don't have the risk of Joe Biden serving another four year term when he clearly is not capable physically of doing it."

"If you were alive in 1871 in the South you had every reason to believe a revolution had been carried out and this was the new order. A terrorist insurgency would ultimately roll it back. But abolition, followed by Reconstruction, had briefly exposed the cynical lie - that change is impossible - upon which the system precariously resides. Had the system of white supremacy not overreached, the rest of white America would have continued to acquiesce. But once the public became radicalized, for a brief but consequential moment, nothing less than a complete refounding and reconstruction of the country was demanded. (from Prologue)"

"If Democrats meet the public's demand for real change with something fake, the other side is willing to offer the real thing. The real risk of a Joe Biden nomination might not be that he could lose to Trump though that is certainly plausible - but that he will beat Trump, fail to deliver, and open the door for a fascist who actually knows what he's doing. Playing it safe is going to get us all killed."