malaise

Authoritarians, fascists, autocrats, and demagogues actively encourage such malaise and surrender and related sentiments and behavior.

The stats highlighting their defensive issues all add up to City's malaise - but, in the most basic terms, Rodri is the player Guardiola is unable to replace.

There was no gleeful chuckling or smiles masking malaise, only respectful discussion between people on either side of the political fence, or straddling it, about what this outcome tells us about who we are and how we, as a nation, should process these results.

A few overarching factors likely helped: widespread post-pandemic malaise, popular dissatisfaction with Joe Biden’s soft-spoken presidency, and an animated double-down on toxic masculinity, right as women en masse were rising up against the Dobbs-era rollback of reproductive rights.

Though a sitting vice president, she has tried to position herself as the “turn the page” candidate by casting Trump and his rhetoric as the cause of that national malaise.