Smart analysis on why GOP won't draw a line on Trump's demands. "The literature on complicity describes how this incremental acclimation operates even with the most violent and brutal behavior." She quotes former FBI Director James Comey: “Mr. Trump eats your soul in small bites."

Asha Rangappa

For this week's Substack, I wrote about the phenomenon of "gradual escalation" as illustrated by the Milgram experiment, and why we are already well into the high-voltage shocks asharangappa.substack.com/p/will-todd-...