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I'm testing a couple options now... here's claude's analysis:

"Serif isn't the problem. The specific serif is.

What you're using reads as a display serif — high stroke contrast, stylized terminals, idiosyncratic letterforms (look at the g, the italic I in "I hope Trump…", the quotation marks). Display serifs are engineered for 40px+ headline sizes where those features become character. At ~20px body size, they become noise — every letter draws attention to itself instead of receding into the word, and the eye reads letterforms instead of language. That's the "goofy" feeling.

Three compounding factors amplify it:

Same font, title and body. The title earns the display weight. The body shouldn't carry it. Editorial systems that use serif body (NYT, Stripe Press, Substack) pair a display serif headline with a text serif body — different font, designed for reading.
Body size too large. Looks ~20–22px. Editorial body sits at 17–18px. Large body + display serif is the "personal Medium blog circa 2016" silhouette.
Loose line-height. Adds to the literary-essay feeling, which fights the social-platform context."

editorial design