Going forward, the only thing you'll hear reported from the Pentagon will be delivered by subservient, right-wing stenographers. The War Department has its own Ministry of Truth, staffed by people whose organizations have seen their fortunes rise along with Trump's. The bootlicking was always there. The only change is that it's now officially state-sanctioned. The administration doesn't care how this looks.

So much for the justices' promise of a "colorblind Constitution."

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