Blue Wave, Green Tide: Politics in an Age of Liquidity

Blue Wave, Green Tide: Politics in an Age of Liquidity

Election-night headlines reach for metaphors (waves, floods, flips) that dramatize change while hiding structure. Donald Trump is a symptom, not a cause: decades of money-driven oligarchy and politics-as-entertainment outlast any single result. Spectacle displaces governance. Reading one night’s outcome as...