I find it interesting how many in the West are perplexed by Megyn Kelly’s logic here. If you, like me, had the misfortune of hanging around Russians when they speak their language, you’d know that it’s a very common way to frame things in their culture. Coincidence?

Dark humor as a coping mechanism, because pattern recognition can be depressing.

Only days ago, when I first shared the Dictator Delusion Scale, I (conservatively) thought Donald Trump was at Level 5, pushing toward Level 6.

What’s striking is how quickly that assessment has changed.

In the Dictator Delusion Scale I sketched earlier, Levels 7–9 are where power stops managing reality and starts replacing it.

This is where authoritarianism becomes ontological.

I’ve been following dictators for a while, and I like to rate them not by how consequential their actions were, but by how unhinged they get over time.

100% this!👇

Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there

Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?

A decade ago, when Trump one the first time, I and other Black writers tried to make us see that racism — both explicit and deeply seeded — was at the root of Trump’s rise. We were dismissed even as late as last year as people attributed economic anxieties to Trump’s wins.
DO YOU BELIEVE US NOW?

Can we talk about Joanna Coles at The Daily Beast? While criticising Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric, she regularly mocks accents and cultures — especially with a bit called “be beast.”