Liberal MS Now commentator Donny Deutsch lambasted the socialist takeover of the Democratic Party in comments on the progressive cable news network.

The panel was discussing whether Democrats would be able to find their footing while the president is facing criticism over the Iran war and high inflation, when Deutsch went on a tirade about the party’s focus.

‘Right now every Republican strategist is salivating on what these people have said in the past, and they’re going to wallpaper with it.’

“Well, Democrats have gone off the rails. … What matters to people is affordability. And Democrats right now are focused on two things. They’re focused on anti-Semitism and socialism,” Deutsch said.

“Not all Democrats,” host Stephanie Ruhle objected.

“Not all, but that’s where the energy of the party is, when you look at the two candidates that got elected in the last week,” he responded. “One of them talks about that there was not — that firebombing in Colorado was not anti-Semitic. I mean, would not acknowledge that, when it was a firebombing of people holding a vigil for hostages by Hamas.”

He was referring to Melat Kiros, who won the Democratic primary for Colorado’s 1st Congressional District, and then cited Darializa Avila Chevalier, the winner of the primary in New York’s 13th Congressional District.

“Another candidate in New York, who has been well documented, was at an October 8 rally, a pro-Hamas, pro-Palestinian rally,” Deutsch continued.

“This is ridiculous, and they’re both running on anti-American, socialistic, ‘Let’s blow up — let’s abolish ICE, let’s abolish prisons, let’s abolish everything, let’s abolish the police.’ It’s insane,” he added.

“And the Republicans are going to tar them with this. This is the problem. Even though they are a small sector of the party, right now every Republican strategist is salivating on what these people have said in the past, and they’re going to wallpaper with it,” Deutsch said.

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“Democrats are going down a bad path. They’re electing these democratic socialists,” he concluded. “It’s a disaster. No matter what you think of it, wherever your politics are, it’s bad strategy.”

Video of Deutsch’s comments were posted to social media, where they were widely circulated.

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Texas Senate hopeful James Talarico not only has a long history of strange comments about trans children and a nonbinary God — he’s now campaigning with Bobby Pulido, who BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales warns is a “pedo protector.”

“Bobby Pulido is not just close with James Talarico. Bobby Pulido is besties with the entire Texas Democrat team, I guess, because Bobby Pulido kicked off the entire Texas Democrat convention last week as per his own tweets,” Gonzales says, explaining that Pulido is a famous musician.

“In his band, he employs an accordion player by the name of Frankie Caballero. Now, Frankie’s not a good guy. Frankie is in fact a total creep, because you see, Frankie is on the sex offender registry for sexually assaulting an 8-year-old in 2014,” she says, warning that this is the most egregious offense on his lengthy rap sheet.

“Be that as it may, the offense wasn’t enough for Pulido to stop touring with him, because both before and after Caballero went to prison for this, for four years, he was touring with the band. He was part of the band,” she explains.

And while the band was touring, they headlined an Axios school benefit. So Pulido headlined a school benefit with a registered sex offender.

“Children were welcome and present at the event, which was held at the Flores Stadium several miles from the middle school grounds according to the promotional materials. So he’s like, ‘Hey, you just busted out of prison for doing unspeakable things to an 8-year-old child. Want to go to a middle school event with me?’” Gonzales says.

“I mean, it takes just the lowest of the low person to do something like that,” she continues.

It was until after 2021 that Pulido stopped touring with Caballero, which Gonzales points out was after he pled guilty to assaulting his daughter and “impeding her normal breathing.”

While Pulido claimed he didn’t know about Caballero’s prior convictions, Ramon Rodriquez, a south Texas bass player, told the New York Post that he “performed with Caballero as recently as 2020 and that the child sex conviction became ‘a known fact in music circles’ in the immediate years after.”

“Seems kind of weird that James Talarico and the rest of the Democrats are hanging their hat on this guy who’s associating with an actual convicted pedophile,” Gonzales says, adding, “That’s what blows my mind.”

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A Pennsylvania state lawmaker said most people “loved” his American flag jacket at the state House, but the security guards told him to take it off or leave.

State Rep. Eric Davanzo, a Republican, walked onto the House floor on Tuesday like any other day, except he was wearing his “patriotic” coat and tie.

‘Instead of coming out here and doing the people’s work, no. What are we focused on? We’re focused on bulls**t issues like this jacket, right?’

Davanzo said in a video his office provided to Blaze News that everyone seemed to love the jacket before he was told House Speaker Joanna McClinton, a Democrat, objected to it.

“Everybody loved it,” he said. “They come up, people gave me hugs, shaking my hands.”

He was told that McClinton said the jacket and tie were not something he would wear every day.

“I’m like, listen, I would wear this back home, and I’m going to wear it again,” he objected.

“This wasn’t a costume. This is something that I truly believe in. I’m a patriot,” he continued.

The security guards told him he could either take it off or leave the floor. He decided to leave the floor.

“America’s 250th, Fourth of July, is four days away,” Davanzo said. “It’s a holiday weekend coming up. Why not wear it?”

A spokesperson for McClinton suggested the jacket was inappropriate for the occasion.

“The House Democrats came to Harrisburg this week to do the serious work of passing a responsible budget to benefit all Pennsylvanians,” the spokesperson’s statement reads. “Some House Republicans showed up in costumes while the Senate Republicans took an early holiday vacation.”

Davanzo excoriated McClinton for focusing on his clothing.

“We have an affordability crisis. People can’t afford stuff. Instead of coming out here and doing the people’s work, no. What are we focused on? We’re focused on bulls**t issues like this jacket, right?” he said.

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“No reason whatsoever. Do the job for the people!” he added.

“We love America,” Davanzo said. “So I’m happy to put this on. I’m proud to wear this.”

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In what seems like a never-ending trend of communists winning their primaries this election cycle, Colorado democratic socialist Melat Kiros is likely headed to Congress.

And Kiros’ recent comments about the tragic events of September 11 have Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck alarmed.

Kiros was asked in an interview with Colorado’s Next 9News about comments she had made regarding the Hamas terror attack on October 7 while appearing on Twitch streamer Hasan Piker’s show.

Kiros doubled down that it was “an inevitable consequence of apartheid, of occupation, decades of occupation.”

The reporter followed up that answer with a question about the most deadly attack on American soil.

“Do you believe that the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America were the inevitable consequence of American foreign policy?” the reporter asked.

“Inevitable in the sense that we destabilized a lot of the Middle East. That forced people to believe that another act of violence was the only response. And again, just like I said before, our responsibility is to getting rid of those conditions that lead to violence,” Kiros replied.

“It’s the typical, you know, blame the rape victim that you get attacked from whatever we did,” Jason Buttrill tells Glenn.

“I don’t agree with blaming the victim or anything when it comes to anything like this,” he adds.

“Name the country that hasn’t made these kinds of mistakes,” Glenn agrees.

“We do nothing to deserve that kind of stuff … the American people are those people that we think of as red, white, and blue and just want to do the right thing and help each other and help other countries,” he says.

“That’s what’s really in our heart. But that’s not what our government’s been doing,” he adds.

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The Department of Homeland Security is criticizing Democratic Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota after signing off on a pardon of an illegal alien who committed horrific sex crimes against a child.

Laotian immigrant Tou Lue Vang pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl numerous times, but “Governor Walz’s pardon” prevents Vang from being deported, according to the DHS.

The DHS said Vang was scheduled to be deported a week after Walz pardoned him, preventing his removal.

Vang was convicted in 2005 of one count of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and was pardoned more than two decades later under the Walz administration. The Minnesota Board of Pardons is composed of the governor, attorney general, and chief justice, according to KSTP.

“I made a mistake, but this is a minor thing,” the pedophile reportedly told police. He also told them that “it’s a cultural thing to marry and have sex with girls as young as 12,” according to the DHS.

He allegedly offered the victim $10 to stay quiet about the horrific assaults.

Vang was sentenced to 144 months in prison, but he reportedly avoided serving any time by pleading guilty to first-degree criminal sexual conduct. He agreed to 30 years of probation, which he was allowed to complete in 2019. He was pardoned seven years later.

The DHS said Vang was scheduled to be deported a week after Walz pardoned him, which prevented his removal.

“Governor Tim Walz’s decision to pardon an illegal alien convicted child rapist so he can remain in our country is disgusting,” said acting DHS Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis.

“These are the criminal illegal aliens he and his Minnesota sanctuary politicians are protecting. Tou Lue Vang lost his legal status following his conviction for repeatedly sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl. Following the conviction, he was placed in removal proceedings and issued a final order of removal by a judge. This pardon will take away this child rapist’s qualifying convictions that made him removable from the United States.”

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Far-left radical Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said in a statement, according to KSTP: “The Minnesota Board of Pardons made a unanimous decision to grant Tou Vang this pardon after an exhaustive process, which included a statement of support for the pardon from the victim, a recommendation to grant the pardon from the Clemency Review Commission, and a large number of community support letters.”

The AG’s statement added: “DHS is lying through their teeth about this pardon. It does not protect Vang from deportation.”

A Blaze News request for comment to Walz’ office was not answered, but his office released a statement to WCCO-TV justifying the pardon based on a statement from the victim.

“What happened to me was wrong, but I have had many years to think about this. I have made my peace with it. I forgive him,” the victim wrote. “I want his family to stay together here. His children need their father. He and his wife have built a life. I believe that he has learned and grown since the abuse and that the family has suffered enough.”

However, the New York Times, citing an official from the Ramsey County attorney’s office, reported that the lenient plea deal was offered because the victim had been pressured by her family not to cooperate with prosecutors.

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Beloved celebrity couple Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are once again dominating the gossip headlines, but this time is a little different.

The rumor mills are claiming that the couple might not only be getting married this Fourth of July weekend, but blocking off surrounding roads to New York City’s Madison Square Garden for the ceremony and celebration.

But BlazeTV host Pat Gray isn’t buying it.

“They’re not getting married at Madison Square Garden,” Gray says.

“It might be the reception, right? It might be just a party,” executive producer Keith Malinak chimes in.

“If they get married at Madison Square Garden, I will eat my underwear because that is not going to happen. It’s not happening. They’re not going to do it,” Gray continues.

“The last thing she wants to do is get married in a dump like MSG,” he adds.

While Jeff Fisher agrees that “the Garden is a dump,” he points out that he still “loves the Garden” as it’s “New York.”

“It’s great for basketball,” Gray comments. “It’s not appropriate for weddings.”

“So Pat Gray is on the record,” Malinak confirms. “He will eat his underwear if Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift get married in Madison Square Garden.”

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The previously agreed upon officer increase for the New York Police Department has been scrapped by Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) in the city’s final budget proposal amid pressure from his socialist base.

The $125.8 billion budget was originally slated to include $70 million to fund the addition of 580 NYPD officers, as outlined in Mamdani’s executive budget proposal released in May.

‘We are calling on Mayor Mamdani to reverse this proposed expansion of the NYPD.’

Mamdani has pivoted in the weeks since.

“I’ve been talking to all agency heads about ways to find savings, and [Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch] and I were able to identify ways to keep the NYPD head count at the originally authorized 35,000 while also meeting all of our crime-fighting needs and implementing the new programs that were announced earlier this year,” Mamdani said during a press conference Tuesday.

The night before the final budget vote, City Council Speaker Julie Menin (D) said she received a call from the mayor informing her of his agreement with Tisch to cut the officer increase from the budget.

“I disagree with that decision. … I do believe we need those officers,” Menin said, citing concerns over increasing rape, felony assault, and subway crime numbers.

“We are going to fight for it now,” she added.

Menin did note that the NYPD budget increased by $300 million for the fiscal year.

The NYC Democratic Socialists of America, of which Mamdani is a member and with whom he holds close political ties, has been avidly calling on the mayor to follow through on his campaign promise to keep the NYPD head count flat.

“We are calling on Mayor Mamdani to reverse this proposed expansion of the NYPD and invest the money in community safety programs instead,” NYC-DSA said on June 12.

The proposed head count increase “runs counter to the values of the socialist and working-class movement that elected him,” the group continued, adding, “When police serve as default first responders, New Yorkers are placed in harm’s way.”

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In a statement to Fox News Digital, the NYPD said, “It is no secret that the city is facing serious financial challenges, and the mayor has asked every agency head to find efficiencies. … For now, the department is able to police effectively with the budgeted head count we have, driving crime down month after month. That head count and our hiring plan gives us the flexibility we need to maintain that balance over the next fiscal year.”

NYPD funding had been at the forefront throughout last year’s mayoral election as Mamdani’s controversial X posts regarding police funding resurfaced, including one where he called the force “wicked” and “corrupt” and advocated for its defunding and dismantling.

In another post, he said, “We don’t need an investigation to know that the NYPD is racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety. … What we need is to #DefundTheNYPD.”

Council member Tiffany Cabán, a democratic socialist and chair of the council’s Progressive Caucus, backed the mayor’s decision.

“I am proud to have worked closely with the mayor and public safety advocates to ensure there was no increase to the NYPD’s headcount in this budget. Every dollar we spend on policing and incarceration means money we can’t spend on housing, mental health care, substance use treatment, and economic stability.”

The Fiscal Year 2027 budget was officially adopted by the City Council on Tuesday and signed into law the following day by Mamdani, making it the largest budget in city history.

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The federal government is known for many things, but efficiency isn’t one of them. But now, thanks to the tireless efforts of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and the DOGE, at least one process has been made easy: federal employee retirement.

In pursuit of “higher quality, faster resolution times, and enhanced efficiency,” the OPM took on the herculean challenge in September of migrating its retirement application processing operations from a mine in Pennsylvania “to a fully electronic world.”

‘By hand, on paper, in a system that feels like a time capsule from the 1970s.’

OPM Director Scott Kupor revealed on Wednesday that the challenge was successfully met — meaning greater efficiency and fewer workers having to toil underground at the Iron Mountain mine.

Quick background

For decades, federal retirement paperwork — roughly 10,000 applications per month — has been processed 230 feet underground in a former limestone mine roughly an hour north of Pittsburgh.

Kupor shed a light late last year on the cavernous Boyers, Pennsylvania, facility, noting that “it’s a place where 600 dedicated federal employees process thousands of retirement claims every month — by hand, on paper, in a system that feels like a time capsule from the 1970s.”

Kupor noted further that the mine “houses about 26,000 file cabinets filled with manilla envelopes, cardboard boxes, and about 400 million pieces of paper, a true testament to the scale and complexity of federal retirement processing.”

While impressive, Kupor said that the mine “is a microcosm of a bigger, more endemic challenge within the federal government: outdated systems and processes that have not kept up with modern technology and that lag in terms of operational efficiency.”

The process, until recently, entailed:

prospective retirees filling out their retirement paperwork on paper;the routing of the paper applications by mail to the HR departments of the retirees’ respective agencies;the routing, again, of the paper applications to the respective payroll providers; andthe shipment of pallets loaded with the completed applications to the Boyers facility.

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Under the leadership of U.S. Chief Design Officer Joe Gebbia — the Airbnb co-founder who joined the Department of Government Efficiency last year — the OPM attempted to tackle what Kupor characterized as a “50-year problem of epic proportions.”

Deliverance

The OPM announced the “Last Day of Paper” on Wednesday and the official end of paper retirement processing for over 95% of federal retirement applications.

Moving forward, virtually all retirement applications will be submitted and processed electronically through the OPM’s Online Retirement Application. ORA has already processed in excess of 155,000 retirement applications over the past year.

“Today we’re closing the book on one of the federal government’s oldest paper processes,” Kupor said in a statement.

“For decades, retirement applications were literally mailed around the country before reaching OPM. That’s over,” continued the OPM director. “By moving retirement online, we’re delivering faster decisions, better service, and greater transparency for federal employees while modernizing an essential government function.”

Elon Musk, long a champion of greater efficiencies in the U.S. government, told Fox News Digital, “Now people can retire as soon as they want, instead of waiting six months for paper to be carried into a mine.”

Kupor thanked Musk “for his vision on this project,” Gebbia “for his technical leadership,” and the OPM members who made it happen, quipping, “So long, Michael J Scott,” in reference to the fictional paper salesman in “The Office.”

The OPM is still in the process of digitizing hundreds of millions of historical retirement records.

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The Supreme Court’s decision to allow the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status for many Haitian migrants has triggered serious outrage from the left — and BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales can’t help but notice the glaring issues in leftist logic.

“Now, seems like it would be kind of common sense. It’s in the name. It’s the T in TPS. Temporary. Temporary. There is an actual definition of the word ‘temporary.’ It means ‘not forever,’” Gonzales says, pointing out that they were supposed to have this status for months, but instead they have had it for nearly two decades.

“Democrats, Haitians, anyone who has the liberal brain rot — they’re losing their entitled little minds about it,” she adds.

Founder and CEO of the Immigrant Family Services Institute Dr. Geralde Gabeau yelled to crowd cheers, “This is the time for all of us to raise our voices and to say this country is also our country, is also the country of our immigrant because we are the one who built it.”

“I’m going to go ahead and I’m going to ask you for your receipts, ma’am,” Gonzales comments.

“’Haitians built this country’ is the argument that they made,” she adds.

However, celebrities have historically made their home sound like a place no one should want to leave, as Susan Sarandon, Conan O’Brien, and even Bill Maher all have donned shirts that read “Haiti is great already.”

“They were pretending like it was just this wonderful, beautiful country; it’s not a third-world s**t-hole,” Gonzales comments. “And now all of a sudden, they’re back to like, ‘No, no, you can’t send them back. No, don’t do that. It’s too big of a s**t-hole.’”

And CNN’s Jake Tapper is among those pleading.

“I heard Stephen Miller, who’s driving a lot of this, say that Haiti is safe for Haitians, and I just looked at the State Department’s website, and they have a level four ‘do not travel’ advisory for Haiti just from a few months ago,” Tapper said on CNN.

“Crimes include robbery, carjacking, sexual assault, and kidnappings for ransom. That doesn’t sound safe to me,” Tapper added.

“’Do not travel’ is not for Haitians. That’s ‘do not travel’ for the United States. That advisory is to American citizens traveling to Haiti, not Haitians going back home,” Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin told Tapper.

“I understand that, but based on everything I’ve read, including the U.N. and Human Rights Watch, it doesn’t sound safe for Haitians. More than 8,100 killings documented last year. Those weren’t Americans. Haiti is among the top five countries with the highest rates of rape and sexual abuse, with more than 1,200 cases of sexual violence last year,” Tapper replied.

“So Haitians are making Haiti unsafe, and somehow we are expected to import them. These are criminals,” Gonzales comments.

“Why would it be our duty to import anyone from any unsafe country in the world?” she asks. “The obvious conclusion is you are only going to make our country less safe.”

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There are films you watch, films you forget, and films that perfectly capture the moment. Uwe Boll’s “Citizen Vigilante” belongs firmly in the last category.

It’s provocative, violent, and unafraid to push the audience past their comfort zone. I watched it for free on Rumble and thoroughly enjoyed every chaotic minute — as did Elon Musk, who has been one of the film’s most vocal cheerleaders. It’s exactly the kind of cinematic hand grenade a hyper-sanitized culture desperately needs.

Watching a criminal actually face consequences on screen acts as a primal pressure valve, venting a lifetime of stored-up civic frustration.

Boll has spent his career making films that divide audiences. Never one to chase Hollywood approval or fashionable opinion, the German has built his reputation on confronting subjects most directors would rather avoid. His films are designed to provoke rather than comfort, confronting audiences with uncomfortable questions about crime, power, justice, and human nature. With “Citizen Vigilante,” he has delivered what may be his most explosive film yet.

Banned in Germany

Unsurprisingly, the film has already been effectively banned in Boll’s homeland. Regulators refused to give it a rating, terrified by how squarely it hits the nail on the head regarding the taboo subject of immigrant crime.

The story plays out like “Taken” on steroids. Armie Hammer stars as a relentless citizen vigilante — a protagonist for the right, an antagonist for the left — who decides that if the system won’t protect people from brutal gangs, he will. He hunts down violent criminals, tackles rapists, and cleans house with zero remorse. For the uninitiated, there is a delicious irony in Hammer playing a ruthless meat-grinder of a hero, considering his Hollywood career was spectacularly derailed during #MeToo by the preposterous, headline-grabbing accusation that he was a literal, real-life cannibal.

But the sensational headlines surrounding its star shouldn’t distract from what the film actually achieves. “Citizen Vigilante” taps into something many Americans and Europeans have been feeling for years: a growing belief that public safety has been abandoned while the institutions meant to preserve it are busy updating their LinkedIn profiles.

Modest expectation

The average viewers aren’t foaming-at-the-mouth psychopaths looking for bloodshed. They’re just exhausted taxpayers who enjoy seeing a little efficient, off-the-books urban renewal. They simply want the radical, avant-garde luxury of a competent government, functioning courts, and streets where a casual evening stroll doesn’t require Kevlar.

Today, that modest expectation feels like pure wishful thinking.

Across much of Europe and parts of America, headlines dominate with depressing regularity: violent crime, repeat offenders, and overwhelmed police departments. Social media ensures that every shocking incident reaches millions before breakfast. Whether official crime statistics rise or fall matters less than the overwhelming public perception that governments have completely lost the plot. That perception is powerful, and ignoring it won’t make it disappear.

When citizens watch career criminals coast through the justice system on a judicial subscription plan — while prosecutors decline charges and politicians offer nothing but thoughts, prayers, and early release — frustration ceases to be passive. Eventually, cynicism becomes the prevailing sentiment, and people begin to ask a rather important question: What happens when the people responsible for enforcing justice appear completely incapable of delivering it?

That question sits right at the heart of “Citizen Vigilante.”

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Broken social contract

Hammer’s character, Sanders, is no comic-book superhero in spandex. He’s simply a man looking at a broken social contract, watching violent thugs thrive while victims suffer, and decides to roll up his sleeves and fix the sewage himself. You don’t have to endorse his butcher-shop methods to appreciate the exact brand of exhaustion driving them.

The enduring appeal of vigilante cinema, from Clint Eastwood classics to “Death Wish,” has never reflected a secret public desire for lawlessness. Rather, it exposes a deep craving for consequences, a desperate desire to see the cosmic ledger balanced when the authorities refuse to do it themselves. When official justice goes missing, fictional justice becomes deeply satisfying. Watching a criminal actually face consequences on screen acts as a primal pressure valve, venting a lifetime of stored-up civic frustration.

The film understands this dynamic remarkably well, but it also highlights a dark humor running beneath the entire premise. Governments spend fortunes producing nauseating public relations campaigns celebrating “community resilience” while struggling to deliver the rather unfashionable service of keeping parasitic scum off the streets.

Citizens are treated to endless speeches about values while wondering if they’ll get stabbed on the subway ride home. Somewhere along the way, basic competence checked into a witness protection program.

No wonder the film has captured the cultural imagination. Viewers want to see what a world with accountability, no matter how brutal, actually looks like. Many in their 20s and 30s have never known a society where real consequences actually exist. I am one of those people.

“Citizen Vigilante” operates best not as a love letter to anarchy, but as an autopsy of our institutions. After all, the rogue actor only becomes a romantic figure when legitimate authority is revealed to be purely ornamental.

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