[FRIAM] signaling

[Santafe]

This article (apologies for paywall; I don’t know how to send an open version)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/opinion/matt-gaetz-attorney-general-trump.html
is another example of missing the point, I think.

It’s all about messaging, and the campaign of demoralization.  The puzzle that the trumper inside-group spends their time on is “What is the loudest way we can say I wipe my ass with your `rule of law’?”

So it is important to pick the lowest, both in terms of depravity and incompetence, to put as lords over the best, to prove that they can’t get out from under it.

I don’t think I “feel” anything about this, except that it is very important and I would like to understand the response to it.  At the end, only effectiveness gets you back under a living circumstance you consider acceptable.

Eric