Nothing Works — And Everything Matters Profoundly
5 min readOct 25, 2020
“Nothing works and nothing matters.” This idea seems to auto-complete much that is in the atmosphere at this fraught moment. It is a kind of nihilism that has afflicted Democrats ever since the ascension of Donald Trump. “Nothing works and nothing matters.”
But: Is it just my eyes that tear up when I think of our wounded country? Despite things not working on so many levels, it…
