I like an essay on the depraved behaviour of the MAGA Right (with respect to their extra-judicial killing of alleged cocaine carriers far at sea) that begins with an anecdote from St Augustine's Confessions.
But here it is, in the New York Times.
I am particularly concerned about how Trump doesn't even have to browbeat his sycophantic cheer squad in the Right wing media to not only excuse, but praise, his actions: the capitalistic self interest in cheering every single thing the goonish administration does relieves him of that. This is the where the American world has changed, for the dramatically worse.
Atrocities weren't cheered in Vietnam or even Iraq - they were hidden. Now, why bother hiding them when you can rely on a large section of the media (the part that your followers watch to the exclusion of all other media) will never criticise or question.
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