the bastards' last stand

There is a viral video of a middle-aged blue-eyed woman who in many ways epitomizes one side of the ideological divide in this moment. She declares that she's "proud to be woke, proud to be a liberal, proud to be a Democrat." She then goes on to explain what that means, which is caring about everyone and loving America. She doesn't mention a single policy or action that she believes will aid people or America. Those matter less than the labels which render her inherently good. Because she is inherently good, anything she supports is inherently good. Even if the thing she supports has a history of failure or will have predictably negative impacts, it is actually good. Those negative consequences are largely irrelevant because that is the price of something so positive. The video is useful because it points to something that feels dangerous but difficult to describe. The internet would refer to the woman in the video as an AWFL—Affluent White Female Liberal. In my head ...