https://www.dogshirtdaily.com/p/the-hero-america-has-earned
This brings me to the most important aspect of Santos: He is exactly the politician we deserve.
If a political society doesn’t punish liars, it encourages politicians to lie, and it encourages the lying liars that tell lies to become politicians. If a political society doesn’t punish politicians for grifting, it encourages grifters to become politicians and more politicians to become grifters. If a political society doesn’t punish figures who adopt new ethnic or social identities, guess what?
Santos is just the reductio ad absurdum of everything we have signaled as a political society that we don’t mind—which is fabulous if you think about it.