Vibe shift 2.0

For the past several months, the consensus here in Washington, DC has been that “the vibes are bad.” Something about the 2024 election and its aftermath seemed totalizing: the chainsaw of DOGE, the brash triumphalism of the MAGA “cool kids,” the unexpected efficiency with which Trump 2.0 began to run its policy playbook, and the obvious exhaustion of the Democratic “resistance” in the face of it all.