not sure I'd place the blame there. but I have seen one or two people get tangled up in something like this, and in the cases I'm thinking of they didn't have youth as an excuse

it's interesting to think about it in terms of late nineties kayfabe. there were definitely "heels" in baseball, think of albert belle, and in wrestling this is also exactly when things were turning more aggressive and vulgar, d-generation x—rap-rock was on the radio....

there's not really any need to find guys like this to be mad at, there's always a few. I don't think they even offer a particularly deep insight into the psychology of white racism, let alone the social phenomenon which is ultimately not only or mainly about attitudes

but this works too

this is the right picture, I think. only I don't really understand how this shift occurred.

I mostly agree with that, but I wonder if it's actually down to venality or more of a change in the culture of the rich and powerful, who seemed to cheer in unison for the invasion even as most were unlikely to profit directly and would have had reasonably open eyes about the consequences

Cheney was also famously unpopular in the 90s for his view of post-cold-war demilitarization, he wanted to reduce the military budget and shut down a huge number of bases when he was SecDef under Bush 1. Again under Bush 2, the opposite. www.latimes.com/archives/la-...

here he is saying the same thing in '96. the geopolitical analysis is decent, but notice the eerie absence in his analysis of the Iraqi civilian. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Nqj...