in part because of how essential the female characters are to the show, which can be rare in the sci-fi genre. So I was disappointed to see such a petty rift between two substantive and powerful girls. The show pitted them against each other, not just for the boys’ friendship but their romantic attention as well, revitalizing the trope that there can only be one girl in a majority-male friend group. Thinking about what a great team El and Max would make only added to my frustration with the storyline. While the two characters are bothclearly The institutional GOP has facilitated this Trump-centric, policy-light vision for their party. The 2020 Republican National Committee platform, for example, was aone-page document Klarman says. “There have been lots of disappointments,” Klarman says. “The idea was that over time, somebody who has gone to law school and spent their life going toFederalist Society Demand Justice, calls originalism “a made-up legal theory” that has proven useful for conservatives. “Originalism is the excuse that they give that sounds good on paper to justify what they are trying to achieve,” he tellsTeen Vogue.