New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg wrote Thursday about the Russian lifestyle of “internal emigration” — turning away from politics to emphasize family or books or gardening or anything else besides the seeming hopelessness of opposing autocracy.
This is exactly what I’m hearing from so many friends and even family here in Greater Philadelphia and on social media. People are leaving Musk’s X in droves, partly to protest the billionaire, but mostly to disengage from politics, at least for now. One boomer woman who threw herself into the so-called Trump Resistance in 2016 wrote me Thursday to say she is done. Protesting Trump, she wrote, “was an utter failure. I’m tired, demoralized and bitter.”
Mainly why I replied was because you posted his videos numerous times, and seemed to be a big fan of a TDS suffering nut that I didn't find funny most times.