Rxan Smith @rxannsmith

The faculty lounge reads position papers. The kitchen table lives the consequences. ​Tap the linked related video right above the title to watch the full deep dive into why Democrats refuse to learn from 2024 👆 ​When was the last time a political campaign actually made you feel seen instead of ignored? youtube.com/shorts/4DkY44j…

Moderate Hispanic support didn't just dip—it collapsed from 81% to 58%. Click the related video link to see the full breakdown of what Democrats refuse to learn from 2024. ​View the full video on the RXAN Smith Uncomfortable @YouTube. #Politics #Elections #Data youtube.com/shorts/jKOa7w_…

The Democratic party kept the people who read the position papers and lost the people living the consequences of not having read them. Here is the data nobody wants to talk about. 🧵👇 youtu.be/hLCaAGqTfLU?is… @DNC @rxannsmith #midterms #Trump #rxansmith

Nobody designed this concentration of political power on purpose. That's what makes it harder to fix than a conspiracy, not easier. uncomfortable.rxansmithmedia.com/p/the-few-were…

10% of voters effectively decided 83% of House races in 2020. Not in November. In June. In a primary almost nobody was watching. New essay: uncomfortable.rxansmithmedia.com/p/the-few-were…

We didn't outsource manufacturing. We outsourced our spine. New essay: uncomfortable.rxansmithmedia.com/p/america-didn… #Teamsters @Teamsters

DSA: From Platform to End State Not writing this as a socialism-bad piece or a socialism-good piece. Writing it as a machinery piece. Show me the road, show me the bill, show me what happens when it works. Same standard for any ideology. #DSA @AOC uncomfortable.rxansmithmedia.com/p/dsa-from-pla…

Every president has always done this. The tool changed. The instinct didn't. A five-part framework for reading any political statement, tested on two posts from the same morning. uncomfortable.rxansmithmedia.com/p/who-is-he-ta…

@billmaher @themattfriend that Trump bit at @billmaher's Mark Twain Prize was incredible. I'm 43, watching Bill since Politically Incorrect, my dad taught me politics that way (very NJ). Handing you that stage says everything about his generosity AND respect for your talent. #BillMaher

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@billmaher just won the Mark Twain Prize at a Kennedy Center that legally can't say Trump's name on the building right now. The White House said it wouldn't happen. It happened anyway. New piece on what his platform actually proves: 👇 uncomfortable.rxansmithmedia.com/p/the-award-th… #realtime #markTwain #netflix

Why ia national pride is so hard to feel in America right now, and why "just be more patriotic" never works. Maybe we've been thinking about it backwards. Pride isn't an input you can will into existence with flags and slogans. It's an output. It's the visible return on a generation of investment in people who had no leverage. What changed isn't the national character. It's the accounting. We concentrated opportunity into a smaller and smaller winner's circle, removed the rungs that used to let ordinary people climb, and then reframed the losses as personal failings. A country of rungs produces citizens who believe the thing is real. A country with one enormous prize at the top produces a lottery, and lotteries produce hope, not pride. Those are different chemicals, and one is much worse. This is a piece about incentive structures, not personalities. It asks an uncomfortable question about what we're willing to rebuild, and who actually benefits from the story that nothing can be. uncomfortable.rxansmithmedia.com/p/pride-is-a-r… #Leadership #PublicPolicy #Economics #Democracy #Infrastructure

@themattfriend that Trump bit at @billmaher's Mark Twain Prize was incredible. I'm 43, watching Bill since Politically Incorrect, my dad taught me politics that way (very NJ). Handing you that stage says everything about his generosity AND respect for your talent. #BillMaher

Why ia national pride is so hard to feel in America right now, and why "just be more patriotic" never works. Maybe we've been thinking about it backwards. Pride isn't an input you can will into existence with flags and slogans. It's an output. It's the visible return on a generation of investment in people who had no leverage. What changed isn't the national character. It's the accounting. We concentrated opportunity into a smaller and smaller winner's circle, removed the rungs that used to let ordinary people climb, and then reframed the losses as personal failings. A country of rungs produces citizens who believe the thing is real. A country with one enormous prize at the top produces a lottery, and lotteries produce hope, not pride. Those are different chemicals, and one is much worse. This is a piece about incentive structures, not personalities. It asks an uncomfortable question about what we're willing to rebuild, and who actually benefits from the story that nothing can be. uncomfortable.rxansmithmedia.com/p/pride-is-a-r… #Leadership #PublicPolicy #Economics #Democracy #Infrastructure

"You can criticize Israel without being antisemitic" is true. It's also a floor, not a finish line. New essay: separating the wars, following the aid money to where it actually goes, and the part nobody says out loud about how online language radicalizes. Criticize all you want. Just don't get anyone killed. #israel @rxannsmith open.substack.com/pub/moderated4…

Click to see the top 100 to publication, Rxan Smith Uncomfortable. uncomfortable.rxansmithmedia.com

Your Premium Doubled. The Bill Still Didn’t Touch the Machine: A Choice, Not a Decline open.substack.com/pub/moderated4…

Show Me The Voter Fraud, Baby! $100 to each person that proves me wrong. 👇 uncomfortable.rxansmithmedia.com/p/show-me-the-… #VoterFraud

Bill Maher just won the Mark Twain Prize at a Kennedy Center that legally can't say Trump's name on the building right now. The White House said it wouldn't happen. It happened anyway. New piece on what his platform actually proves: uncomfortable.rxansmithmedia.com/p/the-award-th…