Oliver Bateman Does the WorkVerified account

The extent to which the professional and political worlds have come to focus on “winning by a technicality” — impeachment, resigning after some faux pas, getting canceled but not via the old-fashioned way of losing an election — is downright fascinating

I don’t think this is good or bad, mind you. I don’t care. I’m a historian and I take the long view. The “boss” and “spoils” system didn’t turn on wars of ideas, merely on securing patronage jobs for followers. The populares and optimates were just competing banners.

The notion that any idea might “win” in the marketplace aside from one that would prevent would wholescale social rebellion is kind of silly. Medicare for all makes sense, maybe even dollars and cents if structured if properly, but impeaching Trump is high entertainment

Nobody knows what pass interference is, except for when it happens to our players (then everything is), and all soccer and basketball players flop except for the ones on our side, who don’t. Most would rather win by default than playing defense, forfeit than by playing for hours

Obviously I don’t want to “get canceled,” which is why I follow every rule of decorum including ones that haven’t even been invented yet, stay not just “in my lane” but in my home, and always keep my cell phone texts (used for work) and emails open for the review of all