They never felt the need to adhere to any humanitarian anything. They just use to jump through hopes to deny, obscure, and create pretext. They’re just skipping the bullshit. And there never was any opposition party. There were Machiavellians who hide things, pissed on your head and told you it was raining, and used the barest pretext to justify the very same crimes. In this, at least, we’re not being gaslit.