In assuming he can do that, he’s nowhere near as wrong as he ought to be. Since the eighties we’ve been exhorting businesses to set their moral compasses to literal Satanism, and yet somehow we’re baffled every time Turmp or Uber or Martin Skeksis does exactly that.
It’s the cognitive dissonance that lets it happen. Turmp gets his way by being an unremitting, conscienceless piece of shit – but we can’t bear to believe the world could work like that – so every piece of evidence must be reinterpreted as an error, or “three-dimensional chess”, or part of some hidden conspiracy that would make sense of it. That’s, like, the New York Times’s full-time mission now.
We’re all great at ferreting out evil done in secret (whether real or imagined), but apparently we’re incapable of spotting evil done in broad daylight. I can’t help feeling this is exactly what the political right has been working towards my whole life.
