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One
Let Me Tell You How I’ve Been Wronged
In May 2022, Fox News reported on a shortage of baby formula in the US, revealing a scandalous situation. The photo showed pallets of formula for illegal immigrants and their families, allegedly being rerouted to detention centers at the southern border, depriving hardworking American families elsewhere. Fox News's hosts, Sean Hannity and Representative Kat Cammack, saw the situation as insane and the Biden administration's "crackers." The photo was a fable, as the contents were powdered milk for children well beyond their first months of life.
The blame game was America's most popular sport, and victimhood became its most fashionable garb. Many Americans believed that the Biden administration was starving babies and poisoning adults. Republican J. D. Vance, a Republican running for an open Senate seat, traced drug-overdose deaths in certain parts of the country to illegal border crossings that the Biden administration was failing to prevent. Vance suggested that targeting MAGA voters and their kids with deadly fentanyl was intentional, as it seemed like Joe Biden wanted to punish the people who didn't vote for him, and opening up the oodgates to the border was one way to do it.
The analysis of illegal border crossings, seizures of fentanyl at the border, and deaths related to fentanyl in the United States during Trump's presidency has been a cockamamie for many reasons. It exposed an outrage, identified wounded parties, and validated their sense of forces against them. This anger has become the primary driver of much of American discourse and most of American politics.
The political right has thrived in this area, where conspiracy theories thrive and conspiracy theorists prosper. Donald Trump, like every president before him, personified key aspects of his era and served as a tuning fork for its temper. He became a victor by playing the victim, focusing on the bad supposedly done to him by the media, liberals, Democrats, Republicans, the FBI, James Comey, and the rest of "the deep state."
The American soundtrack has become a cacophony of competing complaints, some righteous, specious, urgent, or frivolous. The complainers feel cheated, disrespected, and peeved unless they are outright furious. This ire is neither conned to nor concentrated in any one race, region, political party, class, faith, gender, or profession.
For example, the Supreme Court, once one of the most respected institutions in the United States, has plummeted in reputation and transformed into a panel of transparently biased political actors who are nursing hurts, settling scores, and smarting from conviction hearings that have devolved into grim carnivals of contempt. Justices like Neil Gorsuch and Samuel Alito have been accused of being hammered daily by politicians, journalists, and others, and that nobody is defending them.
Justice Clarence Thomas, a Supreme Court justice, was under scrutiny for receiving lavish gifts from wealthy conservatives. ProPublica revealed that Thomas was bitter over being outed as a porn-loving harasser of women who worked for him. This bitterness drove him and his wife, Ginni Thomas, to intensify their partisan stench around her husband.
Tucker Carlson and Josh Hawley, media megastars, identified an intentional weakening of American men, who were being lured into a marginalizing accidity. They argued that environmental factors suppressed their testosterone, social changes devalued their contributions, and evil Democrats who promoted an anythinggoes world of blurred gender roles and contempt for traditional commandments. They constructed a #HeToo o-ramp to the #MeToo rush hour, assuring men that whatever their failings, it wasn't really their fault.
Nuttiness like this has prompted many liberals to scow at the "grievance industrial complex" on the right, whose political warriors regard them as overwrought ones. Conservatives themselves used the phrase "grievance industrial complex" to mock minority groups' claims of extensive harm and demands for elaborate protection and accommodation.
On both right and left, grievance seems to be its own burgeoning economy, its own default pitch. To make arguments, build support, win sympathy and sympathizers, lead with grievance, and package their wares as widely as possible, they must emphasize grievance.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's escape-from-England media blitz was met with backlash, as they focused on their hardships and the racial discrimination they faced. The couple's narrative revolved around their struggles and the treatment they faced, pitting themselves and pointing fingers. They did some good, such as broadcasting the racial element of the condescension and contempt the royal family and the British press exhibited towards Markle. However, their beefs ranged beyond their immediate welfare, to dirty family laundry and issues like the inadequate comfort of their royal cottage in England.
Chris Rock and Will Smith also faced backlash for their actions at the Academy Awards. Smith accepted his Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role and sought to justify the violence without apologizing for it. The Oscar ceremony was a grievancepalooza, devoted to the wrongs done to women, Blacks, gays, lesbians, and trans people. Jane Campion accepted her Best Director trophy for The Power of the Dog, emphasizing the challenges faced by women behind the camera. This set off a restorm at Grievance Central, meaning Twitter, whose users were amboyantly aggrieved on the Williams sisters' behalf.
In conclusion, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's escape-from-England media blitz was met with backlash, but they did some good by highlighting the racial discrimination they faced and the importance of addressing the issues faced by all individuals.
Two
A Good Word Spoiled
The author argues that not all grievances are created equal and raise different concerns. Some expressions of grievances are disproportionate, while others are scaled defensibly to their trigger. The right currently poses the greater threat to the country, both in terms of its disregard for democratic institutions and the behavior it provokes, sanctions, and sometimes even glory.
