What you want to do is to give your partisans a line they can scream over and over when confronted with the horrors of reality, and to muddy the waters enough that those looking in from outside the political trenches grow weary or confused enough not to let the event shape their views.

The US government is now freely killing people at sea, in other lands, and on its own streets.

It is difficult to see what more is needed for Congress and the Supreme Court to exercise their constitutional duty to check and balance what is now a rogue state abroad and a gangster state at home.