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There's a mistake almost everyone makes when they're winning: they mistake their grip on institutional power for the rightness of institutional power itself.

Consider universities using DEI statements as hiring filters. Whatever you think of the content, notice the structure: a small, unaccountable body decides which beliefs disqualify someone from a job.

Institutions outlive coalitions. The tools you build to enforce your values become, within a decade, tools your opponents use to enforce theirs. The censorship apparatus progressives cheered during COVID is now being pointed elsewhere.