The Friday Brief

December 13, 2024

Dec 13, 2024

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The Big Picture

A Preview of Coming Horrors

We’ve all caught a glimpse of the freak-show lineup Trump’s teeing up for his next Cabinet and sub-Cabinet circus, so consider this your handy roadmap to the oncoming avalanche of awful. Picture a twisted sideshow stocked with amateurs, foxes in every henhouse, sex pests (a favorite Brit phrase), drug addicts, conspiracy fetishists, card-carrying criminals, and donors so nakedly venal that even the gunsmiths of Darra Adam Khel would say, “Easy there, big guy.”

I’m not even covering the intentionally horrific parts of the coming attractions. The drive to impose Project 2025 is a much longer idea. This is just a look at the behavioral side of the show.

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