A former president speaks without mentioning a name, to the machinations of a present one.
What is this about? What the boss says, do or suffer; or more or less? What's the agenda, really?
Why would anyone question authority? Authority knows best?
UPDATE: Walz at U Minn law school commencement ceromony. Also, the EmptyWheel crowd in response to the question of capitulation to power by those who should know better, who clearly DO KNOW BETTER, does its Emptyheel thing - point developed, community responds.
The Magna Carta still is more than a historical incident, a precedent, or not, and who caves, who stands, and what the nation's future is and could alternatively could be can be propagandized. Opinion, drummed by repetition can become a false truth. A false flag. Being able to call the other side's stance "propagandized" is too easy - when OUR WAY clearly is better. Saying "propaganda" should only be done after much consideration of what the other side's stance, in toto, is and where it might lead - whether we want to go there or should want to -- or whether we accept discord rather than pressured conformity to what the boss says - that is not today's politics, it is the question of what culture and history are, and why.
When the boss can ship folks to a distant dark dungeon and mock court orders - turning Leonard Leo by screed into a false figure when a judge stands firm - is it somehow truth of a higher order than propaganda, or pure horseshit?
Those are the seeming choices facing one's mind. Yale's Vance is nobody's compass, or is the man a convert to a higher political truth about power, as well as a religion changer. Having found a higher truth that way in his belief system also. What's his Bible say, if that's how you resolve questions?