an unspoken truth is that “conservative” is coded “white” which is why the media reports on them like their grievances are the only ones coming from “real america”

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Gave centrist media like The Bulwark and Pod Save a long leash, and it looks like that leash led us into disaster for marginalized communities. The 2024 failure wasn’t “woke,” it was myopic strategy. @daniellemoodie.bsky.social and @wajali.bsky.social are spot on! open.substack.com/live-stream/...

The Epstein stories from today are so gross and should make men really think about what women have to go through in this world. Full video available on my page!

Trump’s “down period” is a media fantasy. The gears of power, like militancy, donor loyalty, and global despotism, are turning just fine. I wrote about why we’re not in a news cycle. We’re in a slow coup. open.substack.com/pub/stewardb...

Black joblessness ticked up. A reminder that people vote for hierarchy. It’s a hard truth but makes sense.

Wrote about Trump’s Reiner comments and what it means when a fading man becomes a lasting myth. www.stewonthis.com/p/on-trump-r...

Trump the individual is becoming irrelevant. It’s Trump, the idea, the vessel for grievance, the power, and the fear that endures. And whether his actions are strategic or delusional, they shape the culture and the country in ways we’re only beginning to grasp.

Jasmine Crockett brings fire. Centrist Dems bring a wet blanket. Then blame the base when democracy loses. It’s a doom loop, and they keep spinning it.

Been thinking a lot about how centrist Never Trumpers spent the last year blaming “wokeness” and young people—when it was their own failed strategy that lost 2024. They chased a mythical middle, sidelined the base, and punched left harder than they did authoritarianism. Let’s talk about it.

Is this a fair or unfair statement from my latest blog post? www.stewonthis.com/p/america-co...

Used to listen to Pod Save, The Bulwark, and all the “pro-democracy” brain trust. But over time, I couldn’t unsee how often marginalized voices were minimized or missing, especially when it came to race, hierarchy, and American power. www.stewonthis.com/p/america-co...

We won’t understand Trump 2.0 by defending the system that gave us Trump 1.0. The voices that told us ‘this isn’t who we are’ had their turn. Now we need truth-tellers, not myth-builders. youtube.com/shorts/EVQLi...

When a country turns its myths into policy, women pay the price.

Trump’s remarks about Somali Americans reflect so much of what is wrong about our understanding of history and the way we are all connected by it.

Don’t confuse headlines for history. A lot of pundits are selling hope but ignoring structural reality. We are still only in year one. youtube.com/shorts/YetGK...

Trump didn’t just pardon a drug trafficker. He pardoned his own foreign policy. This isn’t justice gone wrong; it’s the American empire doing exactly what it was built to do. Shout out to @johnfugelsang.bsky.social and his point about the root causes of immigration flows.

Silence helps no one: ICE detained the Brazilian-born mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, a former DACA kid, showing Trump’s crackdown now hits his own inner circle.

The Trump administration's Russia-Ukraine "peace" efforts "skip the victim, flatter the aggressor, and enrich the brokers," argues @www.stewonthis.com in this brief video, including references to my breakdown of the 28-point-plan. (I won't hold the Baltimore sports fandom against him.)

Ukraine is being treated like a broken asset ripe for exploitation. For the full video: www.stewonthis.com/p/28-points-... For the newsletter version: www.stewonthis.com/p/ukraine-an...

The last president sicced the Justice Department on his own son. This one fired a qualified prosecutor and installed an unqualified loyalist to stage a kangaroo court against a private citizen, a case that even sober minds agree was evidence-free and unnecessary.

The “peace plan” that wasn’t. A quick breakdown of the deal on Ukraine, and what it says about the collapse of the order the U.S. claimed to uphold. Full video at stewonthis.com Shoutout to @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social

I made it to my first 1000 subscribers! Thank you for all of the support!

MTG didn’t just get ousted, she became disposable. The GOP rewards women who scream for the cause and not those who try to steer it. The moment Marjorie Taylor Greene got ambitious, the old boys’ machine spat her out. This isn’t new. It’s how male power works in the party.

Mamdani and Trump in the Oval Office isn’t a glitch in the matrix, it’s the new algorithm. The populist left and populist right are circling the same pressure points: housing, crime, cost of living. The center has no script for this.

The Trump and Mamdani meeting shows that the weak links in today’s politics are people clinging to a neoliberal and neoconservative consensus that, in its excesses, has alienated the electorate. More here: www.stewonthis.com/p/what-the-m...

Trump 1.0 killed the post-racial myth. Trump 2.0 kills the myth that liberalism was ever the default. More here: www.stewonthis.com/p/storybook-...

Trump 1.0 killed the post-racial myth. Trump 2.0 kills the myth that liberalism was ever the default. More here: www.stewonthis.com/p/storybook-...

I speak about centrism, the simplistic storybook version of American history, and the rising power of the executive branch. www.stewonthis.com/p/storybook-...

Let’s not confuse performance with justice. Survivors of Epstein’s network deserve truth that is deep, structural, world-rocking truth. Not just feuds on cable. Not just selective transparency. Real exposure, real accountability, and real change. substack.com/@stewardbeck...

1/2 One of the big problems for the always-punching-left Democratic consultants is that they are waging ideological battles in public that actually _reinforce_ the left-wing image of the party that they are trying to fight. That is a risk they have decided substack.com/@lakshyajain...

The one where I talk about the rhetoric at the southern border and the Megyn Kelly moral abyss. Subscribe for more at: stewonthis.com youtu.be/FUoF-hHRpHE?...

I discuss the cartel system and the way we talk about the southern border. For paid subscribers, I rant about Megyn Kelly’s disgusting commentary and how we need to really reflect on the state of our nation and discourse. Have a great weekend and be kind! youtu.be/FUoF-hHRpHE?...

The revelations about the Epstein circle continue to be gross. But will we see accountability? Watch the full video at www.stewonthis.com/p/boat-strik...

I recorded some thoughts about the Epstein release and what it says about our society and what lies in the shadows. We may be jaded, but we should still pay attention. youtu.be/4L5I71MIQz8

What comes after the rupture won’t be decided by pundits clinging to yesterday. It’ll be shaped by those who had no choice but to survive it. Share this if you’re done letting yesterday’s centrists fumble our future. Subscribe and share! youtu.be/C9sULlYItzk

While the pundits spent years debating whether Trumpism was “real conservatism,” the machinery of power kept humming. I wrote about my own journey through that debate, what we missed, and how we got here. www.stewonthis.com/p/debating-c...

The party of the future can’t keep taking advice from ghosts of the past. My latest piece looks at how the alliance between neolibs and anti-Trump neocons might be holding Democrats back from real renewal. More thoughts at: www.stewonthis.com/p/two-silences

Thank you @genzforchange.org and @votersoftomorrow.org , who both do incredible work to engage young people in politics and civics. I’m beyond honored to have their support!

It's a new era, and it's time for new voices. I write about the Democrat alliance with Never Trump Republicans and how it may be holding us back rather than pushing us forward. www.stewonthis.com/p/two-silences

The Democratic Party keeps borrowing maps from the people who drove us into the ditch. My latest piece asks whether this alliance with Bush-era “Never Trumpers” is strategy, or a hangover. www.stewonthis.com/p/two-silenc...

In my latest, I ask whether Democrats’ alliance with their old Bush-era adversaries has helped at all, or just trapped them in Cold War reflexes where every new idea is “too far left.” Curious where others land on that. www.stewonthis.com/p/two-silences

Two democracies. Two continents. One shared disease: constitutional sclerosis. My latest essay on what happens when power forgets how to adapt. www.stewonthis.com/p/two-silenc...

just dropped a new piece on the Senate Dems’ shutdown cave + the slow rot of centrism-for-centrism’s-sake. if you’re feeling that mix of fury and existential eye twitch, it’s for you. also: civic space is shrinking, and the vibes are not immaculate. www.stewonthis.com/p/moderation...

When patriarchy cracked, the propaganda machine rushed in to sell the rubble. I wrote about the echo economy and the myth of “lost manhood. open.substack.com/pub/stewardb...

What happens when the WiFi goes down and the bullets come out? I wrote about how Tanzania shows us the dark side of digital dissent. Please share and subscribe. www.stewonthis.com/p/blackout-s...

What if the “affordability-only” narrative misses the real lesson of Zohran Mamdani’s win? I wrote about the deeper shift underway, where economic dignity and social justice are finally being treated as inseparable. www.stewonthis.com/p/stop-unmar...

The centrist obsession with separating economic and social justice is a fossil from the era that brought us Trump. NYC just elected a mayor who didn’t play that game, and voters showed up. New Substack: Stop Unmarrying Economic and Social Concerns. www.stewonthis.com/p/stop-unmar...