Trump, Optimism, Amazon, Populism, Millennials - Five Things - Issue #436

He is demonstrably unfit for office. What are we waiting for?

Susan Glasser on the yearly wave of optimism known as the January Effect and the difficulty of maintaining a sense of possibility in the Trump era.

A growing number of self-proclaimed experts promise they can teach anyone how to make a passive income selling cheap Chinese goods in the internet's largest store. Not everyone’s getting rich quick.

Hard-line leaders and parties are responding to setbacks by revitalizing a sense of crisis and stripping down their message to its core: a skepticism toward liberal ideals.

Also, the Millennials seem to be awfully whiny.

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