Speaking B.S. to Truth

The epitaph to the Trump administration might well read′ “What Just Happened?” As we gently doze off to reports of the sober policy initiatives taken by the Biden administration′ it is easy to forget the tone and timbre of the “sound torture” that preceded it′ the shrieking politics of the “paranoid style.” Just as when a fever finally breaks′ and he sickness that urgently gripped the bodymelts into memory′ it might tax our imagination to recall what the daily fear and loathing was really like. But of course′ we should not confuse this political remission with a complete social and cultural recovery

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