Trump Gets the Beria Treatment
Commentary
The Trump indictments—note the plural—are they not like the blind encountering an elephant for the first time?
One touches the beast’s trunk and says it’s shaped like a snake.
Another touches its tusks and says, no, it’s hard and bone-like.
A third, hands on the elephant’s capacious side, says it’s more like a wall of flesh.
That old story was meant to remind us of how limited our individual perspectives can be.
How easy it is to mistake the part for the whole, to seize on one thing we’re familiar with and elevate it to a general explanatory principle….