Christine Hall on Nostr: "There comes a moment in every collapsing democracy when absurdity and menace fuse ...
"There comes a moment in every collapsing democracy when absurdity and menace fuse into something uniquely destabilizing—a phenomenon I’m tempted to call 'malignant farce.' We’ve reached that moment. The President of the United States, after invoking a 1798 wartime law to mass-deport migrants to a third country, now claims he didn’t do it": The Presidential Toddler Theory Of Government
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