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But much as I admired the playwright’s ingenious examination of identity politics through the looking glass of farce, I never quite succumbed to the comedy’s demented logic.

In 2012, Lauren Rivera, a professor at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, coined the term "looking glass merit" to describe the unconscious tendency that humans have to define merit in a way that is self-validating.

It wasn’t that long ago that the country and the world slipped through the looking glass.

“Hopefully there may be AI regulation someday, but we are already through the looking glass. I do think it’s already too late.”

So on Monday, this Democrat decided to step through the looking glass and attend my first Republican caucus.