This is one advantage of having the historical memory of authoritarianism, as I have from Brazil: you know that, when the regime is gone, the people who collaborated and acquiesced look terrible in retrospect. It may look reasonable and justifiable now, but believe me, it will age like milk.

“Actual traitor.

Steve Witkoff is supposed to work for the United States, not Russia.” - Congressman Ted Lieu.

You are not going to nice guy the fascists into no longer being fascists. Keep your Chuck Schumeresque bullshit to yourself.

There’s probably a quip in there about not approving of authors having complete lives as human beings because delays our ongoing obsession with their published works. Something something more Hugh.