“Powerful white men whose sexual deviancy and abuse of underage girls became a sport of sorts for the modern billionaire class and the politicians, legal and financial institutions and media organizations who covered for them.

The recent smelting of CBS news into a cauldron of disinformation via Bari Weiss-led censorship and right wing agitprop (an Erika Kirk ‘town hall’ is not newsworthy and Turning Point USA is nothing more than a stochastic terrorist organization backed by reactionary billionaires who want to dismantle liberal education in favor of Christofascist dogma) is no accident.

It is much more likely that the real objective is to eliminate any threat of an effective news media with the resources and ability to hold men like Trump and Musk accountable for their sexual predation; as it is any specific attempt to hide the Trump administration’s human rights abuses surrounding migrant detention in places like CECOT, which is such a low point in the American experiment that college courses will be taught on it someday, if our republic survives.

It is almost unfathomable that ’60 Minutes’ would have a segment cut so close to air time; what it says about how far the networks have gone in caving to Trump in the space of a single year is embarrassing to anyone who ever worked in the television industry.

What is being done by the Trump administration is abhorrent and inexcusable - and the men and women behind it know they have already neutered their base enough to not to care. The most dangerous element of the MAGA phenomenon that has so imperiled our nation is its ability to separate its followers from their own humanity.

This is the dynamic that does lasting damage.

MAGA diehards and ‘America First’ ideologues have become so numb to the suffering of others that they see Trump’s transgressions and human rights abuses as cause for celebration rather than deep national scars and misdeeds for which we will someday be forced to atone.“