Out/In List: 2024-25

The other Debate Link tradition each year: the out/in list!

Out                                                    In

Biden                                                Trump

Vote Joy                                            Existential dread

DINKing                                           Childcare expenses

Polio vaccines                                   Polio

Justice Thomas                                  Justice Ho

Restore Roe                                       Restore Comstock

Major questions doctrine                  Unitary Executive

Reducing inflation                             Raising tariffs

Vice President Vance                         Co-President Musk

Bluesky is an echo chamber              X's MAGA civil war

Pac-2                                                   Pac-???

Bibi is a goner                                    Bibi somehow survives again

ADL leads the resistance                   ADL leads the acquiescence

Jews blamed for Trump losing          Jews blamed for Trump winning

“Democracy dies in darkness”          "AI bias meters"

Free speech absolutism                      Overturn NY Times v. Sullivan

January 6 was an insurrection            January 6 pardons

“Heterodox” thinkers                         Führerprinzip

Susan Collins’ furrowed brow            Susan Collins doesn't bother

I'd say I hope you're "in", but given the contents of that column that seems mean. So I'll just wish everyone the best of luck next year -- we'll need it.