The Surrender of America's Elites

The problem is that they pushed back last time and ultimately the public said "more, more!"

Surrender makes sense, as this state of affairs is not an anomaly and not the choice of one man, but the repeated choice of the American public. This was chosen by the public and there is no reason to think they will stop choosing it.

https://archive.ph/GB2Xg

Link should be:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/freedom-tr...

"The people, it turns out, are far more courageous than their leaders."

One of those has nothing to lose, the other has everything.

The average person has nothing to lose?

They do but they don't perceive it, at least not from Trump. If it was Ta-Nehisi Coates maybe they would.

The Atlantic is backed by a member of the American elite.

Well, he must be less cowardly than the others.

She. Time will tell.

>She.

Oops. Made an assumption based on the fact that almost every other major media seems to be owned by men.