Will They Know There Were Good Americans?
I’ve never liked the phrase “Don’t feed the trolls,” because it comes from a place of apathy. Functionally so, as advice from someone on the outside of whichever outrage to the person within it. We’re ankle-deep in 2025 (and drowning), and have likely been thinking about how to navigate the crush of abstract politics with our personal lives, of social media and real relationships, and startling new developments which are also exhaustingly familiar. Will we make the same mistakes as last time? Maybe those “mistakes” were actually stemming the tide of the “worst,” giving us merely “terrible” instead. Here’s why you don’t feed the trolls: if they’re making an argument so infuriatingly stupid, it’s probably because they haven’t thought about it too hard, and that’s probably because they don’t really care. You can’t educate someone like that, because in order to learn something, you first have to care about the subject in question. … More Will They Know There Were Good Americans?

