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I am not saying this ironically. This episode of the "transgender mice" epitomizes Trump vs. his critics. Do with this example what you will. As a novelist, I can understand everyone's reaction.

As predictable as this is, it’s still infuriating to see it. For decades, Bashar al-Assad protected minority religious communities in Syria, including the country’s large Christian population. No one in the United States was allowed to notice this, and anyone who did was immediately denounced by neocons as a dangerous extremist. Bari Weiss declared Tulsi Gabbard “monstrous” and an “Assad toady” for noticing. But it was true. Assad protected the Christians. The weaker Assad was, the more Christians died. During the years that neocons in the west backed the war against Assad, the percentage of Christians in Syria went from ten percent to two percent. Now that Assad has been driven from power, many of the remaining Syrian Christians are being slaughtered and their holy places desecrated. Bari Weiss and John Bolton haven’t said a word about it. But no one who’s paying attention can be surprised it’s happening. Neocon projects in the Middle East invariably destroy ancient Christian communities, from Iraq to Gaza and in many places in between. Can this be an accident? You wonder.

In 2014 it was falsely claimed that Putin had cancer. That was used to “explain” why he was “acting crazy.” In 2022 that same narrative has been dusted off. Little children are unable to understand the situation from the perspective of an adversary, and choose to believe lies.