Been thinking about this lately in terms of Planck's Principle, summarized as, "Science progresses one funeral at a time." This time, the funeral is for the US Science Community writ large. When we rebuild, there won't be nearly as many tenured Old Heads obstructing breakthroughs from the New Heads.

It's also that more people making decisions about what's covered agree with him than are willing to admit openly. www.aaronrosspowell.com/3m5ee5raios2r

Cults of personality rarely if ever outlast that personality. This one is largely propped up by an implicit threat of cultist violence on Dear Leader's mere suggestion that maybe something like that could happen. Nobody else would have the thrall to swing that threat, so the cult will end with him.

Whereas the conservative dog-whistle of Law & Order expects Law to work as Wilhoit described for them, and Order refers to the assortment of those established in- & out-groups, which linguist @george-lakoff.com outlined as the "conservative moral hierarchy", to wit:
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Wilhoit's formulation of "anti-conservatism" maps pretty tidily to Rule of Law, where Law (to protect & bind alike) is expected to apply equally to all depending only upon their own conduct, regardless of who they are. 1/2

Recently heard a mashup of that with "Warm Leatherette"

🎵 Warm... Bananaphone! 🎵

Enter the Geisha: pr0n knockoff of Enter the Dragon, or just a forgotten drag-themed sequel? 🤔

“don’t GIVE him what he wants just let him DO whatever he wants!” - half the Democratic Party and also the ghost of Neville Chamberlain, probably

Yup, she played him like a fiddle. Giving him the physical medal itself doesn't mean he won it, nor that she didn't. She knows that, & he only cares about getting it:

"He understood trump after our conversations. it is not complex. he must be seen to get something its that simple."
~Jeffrey Epstein