Aloha and Namaste everyone and welcome to Mpolitik with John Heilman, a puck and

Odyssey joint featuring lively, in-depth conversations with the people who roam the quarters of power

and influence in America, weaving the warp and wharf and weft of our politics and culture.

Unless you are a super godless heathen or on one hell

of a seven-day blackout bender, you're aware that last week was for Lutherans, Anglicans,

Methodists, Presbyterians, Catholics, and all the rest of the random Christian denominations around the

world, Holy Week, which was, of course, ironic,

given the extremely unholy events that took place in American politics in the course of

that same week. The events in question centered on Donald Trump's appearance last Monday in the

Oval Office alongside El Salvador's president and self-described world's coolest dictator,

Nia Buckele, in which Trump, A, openly flouted and refused to comply with the Supreme Court's

unanimous ruling that his administration had to facilitate the return of Kilmar Obrego-Garcia

to the United States. B, wantonly lied about that ruling, claiming that it said exactly the opposite of what

it plainly did say, calling it a triumphant victory for his administration. C. expressed his desire to

start sending American citizens to penal colonies, aka Goulogs, aka concentration camps in El Salvador.

And D. suggested to the delight of everyone in the room that Buckele get to work on building five more such penal colonies, aka Gulogs, aka concentration

camps, to accommodate the inflow of American citizens that Trump has in mind.

What those events unleashed was a rare kind of harmonic convergence of sane and right-thinking

opinion, whereby outlets and voices across the ideological spectrum from the far, far-far

left, to the liberal small-D Democratic Center, to what used to be considered the rock-rib

conservative right, all arrived at roughly the same conclusion. Take, for example,

the Financial Times, no communist newspaper, Financial Times, which ran the following headline last

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