Ross Douthat is the rare political columnist to seem “aware that the battles he cares about have been lost, perhaps permanently.”

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When futility and the absurd prevail, agitation and narcissism follow. It’s a twitchy time, when everyone knows we’re in crisis, but the crisis is always far away, at the border or in the future. In the meantime all we do is check our phones to see when it’ll hit us.

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