S.B.,

Excellent comment, and very interesting, and terrifying, speculation.

Your thoughts about the patterns while Democrats are in power mesh nicely with my own (we are contemporaries).

This is somewhat OT but while hiking this morning in the coast ranges of northern California, on what I like to think of as “my” mountain, I had the following thought about what is often said in discussions about “torture” and torture: that if we allow ourselves to, exempli gratia, waterboard our enemies to extract information, then we are “no better than the enemy.”

It occurred to me that we should map that (to me erroneous) thought into another, better and clearer one:

Henceforth we intend to be no worse than the enemy, and to be infinitely better at it.

Jamie Irons