Prisoner’s dilemma is exactly right

The UK - pre and post brexit - has been a thoroughly illuminating case study in democratic decay

I don’t know if it’s ever entirely too late. Maybe too late to save the existing system. Not too late to build a better one.

Exactly right. This is a global problem and a global project.

But that doesn’t explain the Newsom/Fetterman pivot. That’s the part that is unimaginably dumb.