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Having a lens on what postelection governance looks like, however, is a rarity in nonfiction, which makes “Prime Minister” something of a unicorn: an intimate view inside the consequential, galvanizing five-year administration of New Zealand’s progressive leader Jacinda Ardern, who also became a first-time mother simultaneous to taking her country’s highest seat of power.

I’m a longtime Bluesky adopter, going back to the referral-code days, but after I fully quit X postelection, I made it my microblog of choice, especially as more ex-Xers joined.

But if I’m being honest with myself, my postelection addiction to National Review does not come from a sensation I’d describe as animosity.

The point is to boost collective morale, to allow for a mass expression of rage, and to galvanize the public—to propel people out of their postelection exhaustion and malaise and remind them that we can and must fight back.

Given Harris’ name recognition and fundraising prowess, she would probably prompt some Democrats to drop out of the race, which Porter alluded to in a December postelection conference at UC Irvine.