
The Iryna Zarutska mural thing shocks me. I don’t know why, particularly after the attempted assassination of Trump and the murder of Charlie Kirk, and more importantly their reactions. But it feels like a new low. I would love nothing more than for our current political madness to end, but it’s clearer every day half the country has no interest in such a thing. Perhaps the tribe is superior to the nation after all. I’m pretty sure people in the Amazon don’t deal with this level of internal division. In fact if this keeps up that’s exactly where we are headed: to our most primitive selves, and all the nastiness that implies.

















