Rage Against Whackadoo Shit
The Politics of Leverage…
…and Leverage in Politics
4 min readOct 11, 2023
As near as I can figure, the primary action item of the MAGA conservative is to “own the libs.” Any governance or law-making would be a stunning coincidence and only relevant if it aids in the goal of “owning the libs”. Another way to look at this is to apply the notion of “us vs. them” or a zero-sum game. That is to say that, in politics, there are winners and there are losers. Rather, there MUST be a winner and there MUST be a loser.