Breaking my “no politics until November” promise to self in order to quote today’s Stratechery update:

[The] Democrats gave up the enviable position of being the default choice for people who didn’t want to think about politics at all.

And this is exactly what has been bothering me since 2016. I spent my whole childhood and young adulthood in a country (Serbia) where you had no choice but to think about politics, and a big part of coming to the US was not having to think about it too hard. Alas, instead of the Balkans becoming westernized the West has been balkanized.