To be fair, Republicans have been good at this for a while. Iran-Contra should have seen many officials behind bars. No one served any time despite the admission of illegal actions and the destruction of evidence. Trump is a monster standing on the shoulders of previous ghouls.

Isn’t this the expected default position of the modern papacy? Not that he had to adhere to that, but any other position would be quite medieval.

His base will not detect the irony.

They are wearing plain clothes. They aren’t showing badges or ID. They are kidnapping and disappearing people.

This isn’t protecting the American people. It’s human trafficking and torture.

Then again, the American government is old hat at those things.