a dear friend of mine describes sexual violence as a core value of this current admin. she says she finds it critically important to point this out to her because growing up in post soviet eastern europe, that was the key marker of corrupt governments. it was easy to see the greed of access to power through violence as being about money, but it runs so much deeper than that. the money is means. sex, violence, and sexual violence is the end
I know all these things (and more) but to read them concentrated like that is still shocking.
a dear friend of mine describes sexual violence as a core value of this current admin. she says she finds it critically important to point this out to her because growing up in post soviet eastern europe, that was the key marker of corrupt governments. it was easy to see the greed of access to power through violence as being about money, but it runs so much deeper than that. the money is means. sex, violence, and sexual violence is the end
Eliot Weinberger did a few essays in this style for the London Review of Books in the first term. It’s exhausting.
This is from 2024, before he took office: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n24/eliot-weinberger/incoming