Short Take Politics
Cultish flashbacks
When the helicopter crashed into the jet in Washington, the President appeared at a Press Conference that also featured Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy. Both, before adding anything to the conversation, expressed adulation to their leader. The same thing happened this week at a full cabinet meeting. https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/the-cult-of-adulation-trumps-inner?…
Rule by whim takes its toll
How do you do the right thing for national security when you need to continuously look over your shoulder because decisions are based on loyalty oaths and empty rhetoric is a fact-free vacuum? https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/us-cyber-defenders-shaken-trumps-attack-former-boss-rcna200597
Pray for Kilmar
Kilmar Abrego Garcia was working in the United States with a Green Card for 15 years before being scooped up in an administrative error and transported to El Salvador. The government can’t figure out how to bring him home. https://www.npr.org/2025/04/12/nx-s1-5363234/trump-administration-judge…