Whenever people try to talk about 'slow progressivism' as though the mainstream left hasn't been creeping steadily rightwards for my whole life, I think a lot about Wallace Shawn's 'The Fever':
@hystericempress Holy crap, I had NO IDEA he was an essayist.
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@zebratron2084 Oh yeah, like, 'The Fever' is a ninety-minute stage monologue he performed in a lot of arthouse and college venues. It was a really big deal.