Rising in status

1. Prediction markets

2. Competitive primary elections

3. Elon

4. French whales

5. The integrity of the American electoral system

6. J.D. Vance

7. The word “trifecta”

8. Twitter

9. Podcasts

10. Long podcasts

11. The Amish

12. Men

What else?

You don’t have to like all of those outcomes, but that is my assessment.  Sometimes I do a “Falling in Status” companion post, but I feel any reasonable approach to that one would be mean-spirited, so I will leave it aside.