Here comes (Varoom! Varoom!) the candy-colored streamlined dream of American democracy. Punch it!

By: Max McCoy

Outlets: Kansas Reflector

Published: February 15, 2026

Words: 2,435

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 6 days ago

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I wrote this in a dream.

Well, it wasn’t a dream exactly, but it was the closest thing you can experience while keeping fingers on the keyboard. I suppose there is a technical name for it, a somnambular cultural trance or political fugue state or something, but what I know is that after doomscrolling since the first of January (and we thought 2026 was going to be better!) looking for signs that American democracy would …

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