First came Brexit. Then Prince died of an overdose. Then Donald Trump won the presidency.
For liberals on social media, it was obvious what was happening: The year 2016 was hexed.
“Thanks 2016,” one liberal user after another scrawled as psychologically traumatic world events unfolded. The phrase became so common that Spotify, ever keen to piggyback on a cultural trend, coopted it in its year-end ad blitz: “Thanks 2016, it’s been weird.”
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I remember teasing my suddenly superstitious liberal friends for embracing the hocus-pocus. But I must now admit that my smug grin has straightened. Our culture has indeed become so strange that it feels plausible to suggest that we took the wrong exit in 2016 and that we’ve been winding through backroads in search
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