Why Senate Democrats Are Holding The Clarity Act Hostage | Ep 26⚖️
Good now revolutionaries— Alex and Emily are back on Trust Issues, and this week they turn the wonky Clarity Act deep-dive into a broader argument about grift, taste, and how American governance actually operates. Emily kicks it off with a viral TikTok on the "inheritance of taste" — the difference between new-rich (buying the expensive thing because someone told you to) and old-rich (absorbing taste through osmosis). Alex ties it to Thorstein Veblen's 1899 book The Theory of the Leisure Class and "conspicuous consumption" — coming up as book-club material once TI restarts.
The Clarity Act…
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