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According to Lee, Trump's extreme dangerousness puts him in a completely different category from previous Republican presidents, who merely endorsed a set of harsh economic policies that are associated with increased violence. In contrast to past presidents with likely personality disorders, she believes, Trump has a psychological profile that is common among violent offenders. "There is typically a developmental arrest caused by early trauma or abandonment," Lee says. "As adults, they still act like children in the playground; convinced that might makes right, they often can't stop bullying others. "Trump's mother, Lee points out, became chronically ill when he turned two, and his father was cruel and emotionally unavailable, repeatedly urging his son to be "a killer."
January 4, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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The scholar Adela Cedillo argues that the Mexican Operation Condor's real purpose was to eradicate the populist left by essentially criminalizing small-scale agriculture while reorganizing and centralizing the Mexican military to the benefit of a handful of dominant players; in other words, to serve a hidden agenda near-identical to that of its namesake. When Marco Rubio maligns the efficacy of interdiction and other traditional law enforcement approaches to mitigating narco-trafficking in favor of "military" operations, as he did in a recent speech on Trump's speedboat bombings, he is contradicting every empirical evaluation of drug war efficacy that exists, yes, but he is also pining for a kind of Cold War-era blanket license to commit dirty war in the name of some bigger goal.
January 4, 2026 at 2:52 PM
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But in general, the campaign to invade a titularly sovereign country so as to throw an erstwhile CIA puppet under the bus for the sins of the CIA, known as Operation Just Cause, was such a smashing success that such giants of Trump's foreign-policy brain trust as Elliott Abrams and Brett McGurk have publicly pleaded with war-weary Americans to understand that it is Panama, not Iraq or Libya, that is their blueprint for regime change in Venezuela.
January 4, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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My daughter asked me if I loved America, and this is what I said. I know it is what I said because she made me write it down. "I love this country more than anyone I know," I told her. "But you have to love it honestly. This country has done acts of incredible evil, almost unparalleled evil. And you have to be honest about that. In order to love it, you need to be honest. You can only love the good things and then be honest about the rest. Then your love will be honest too. " She nodded and said she understood. "But you have to be that way about people too," I said, my voice breaking. "And that is the hardest thing."
January 1, 2026 at 9:04 PM