What Junkyard Car Revival Can Teach Progressives

The best way to sort out a fuel smell on your 1993 Ford Ranger is to take off the truck bed. Do that and you see a rearward leaf spring mount rusted away and the spring lodged into the aforementioned truck bed. Then there are the snapped bolts that held down the truck bed that now need addressing. After time, you realize the leaf spring mount on the other side is about to give up the ghost and needs replacing. Of course, the leaf spring bushings need replacing. And you should sort out that leak from the differential. Probably should paint the frame to fight off the rust, since the truck bed is off. After that, you are still left with a fuel leak.

Welcome to today's democracy under Trump—crack open one problem, and the problems will just keep popping up. For my mental health after chasing to write on the cascade of Trumpian corruption for some years, I took refuge in a new hobby—puttering on beater cars.

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Don't get it right, just get it running. Read what progressives can learn by fixing junk.