Please, are there even words to describe The Great Cheese Lord and President of All Things Chaotically Cheesy? I think not. She is far too smart, witty, and clever. Normal hipster tumblrs will never understand. You could try though, just appease her...
Kind of what we saw in the Obama era, white racial resentment rules in the GOP while millennials show up big for Democrats. We’re just not the youngest generation anymore.
But millennials were also slipping to the right in the past 2 elections, so a reversion to the left is genuinely good news if Harris can motivate even younger voters as well.
There’s absolutely a winning coalition with voters under 50 and voters of color. It’s there, but will misogynoir win out in the suburbs?
Christ, Zoomers, really? +1 Trump? I thought y'all were supposed to be the most progressive generation of all time? What happened? Please don’t have Trump be y'all’s Reagan, I’m begging.
This never ceases to blow me away, because it’s something Leverage does fantastically and I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone else pull off. Usually when a character is supposed to be the best of the best, it’s hard to present them with a decent challenge. So you end up with them making stupid mistakes or self-sabotaging or getting screwed over by huge coincidences.
But Leverage goes the other direction: they’re so good at their jobs that that’s what causes problems. Their police disguise is so good that they’re given an assignment for the actual cops. Eliot is just supposed to join a baseball team and ends up becoming the star and getting recognized while in the middle of a different part of the con. Sophie’s reputation is so terrifying that Chaos tries to kill her preemptively because he knows he can’t possibly out-con her. This stuff doesn’t always drive the plot, but it allows for complications while still allowing the characters to be at the top of their field.
Yeah, I’m not the first person to point this out, and I’m pretty sure I’ve gushed about it before. But seriously, it’s one hell of a trick, and something any writer should want to study.
