A s I’m sure you’ve noticed, the rhetoric coming from the vandals is utterly bonkers. As usual, it’s all lies, but it’s also a sideshow. It’s there to distract us. None of what’s really happening is about DEI, though the rhetoric about it that is hot and thick. Nor is it about woke, trans women playing sports, or anything about efficiency, waste, fraud, or abuse. Yes, the vandals value the degradation of non-whites, non-Christians, non-citizens, and non-men. And yes, the deep well of cruelty we see bubbling to the surface wouldn’t surprise anyone living in, say, the thirteenth century. Nonetheless, that’s all a sideshow. The main event, what this is really about — and the lens through which we all need to see it — is exactly as Nancy Pelosi once put it: “All roads lead to Putin.” If the atrocious actions we’ve seen from the vandals in the last month have one thing in common, it’s that they all, without exception, harm America and benefit Putin. There...
Life and Politics in the Age of Covid