You might know a street hustler; the street-corner, three-card monte, watch-the-pea-under-the-shell kind. The hustle that isn’t about building something, but who is about getting over.

That kind of hustling is what you do when you know, deep in your gut you don’t have skills. And if you have achieved without skills, you know that you don’t actually deserve what you have, and you’re one wrong move away from everyone else figuring it out.

This is the Democratic Party’s core operating principle. They’ve achieved cultural power—a dominance in media, academia, and tech—but they have the nervous energy of an imposter who snuck into a gala and is now desperately trying to mimic the guests, terrified the bouncer will finally check their credentials.

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