Yes, Things Are Pretty Bad Right Now.⁠↗

the honest truth, as I see it, is that things are actually pretty bad right now. Nearly everything in the political arena — the candidates, the policies, the extremism, the AI slop, the punditry, the writing, the thinking, the principles — it all seems to be getting worse in basically every meaningful way. And, to me, one of the driving forces behind all of this is the Trump administration.