Hegseth’s announcement triggered triggered widespread condemnation spanning GOP lawmakers, Democrats and pundits across the spectrum in media.
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I was just listening to the audiobook for Enlightenment Now.
And man is this a gut-punch: he was talking about the overall trend, worldwide, of capital punishment trending downwards. Including in the United States.
He talks a bit about how the U.S. is an outlier among first world countries in that we still even have it, and how we are in the company of some rather awful nation-states when it comes to still having the death penalty - China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, etc. You know, real beacons of freedom. Then he quotes someone (?) that said it may be possible that even in America, and even in the Southern states, it may trend to zero.
By 2026. The book is from 2018.
Well, I guess we missed that chance. But as long as we keep electing stupid apes like donnie and having bloodthirsty assholes like Hegseth who clearly peaked in high school running things…it might be a while.