Interesting times in the homeland. I continue to think that the most egregious and jaw-dropping things going on might be contrived to be so in order to distract from the things going on deeper in the mechanism. When a mechanism shifts polarity, it changes throughout, so I have to assume that changes are going on at the enter of things while these egregious things are going on on the outside. And the people around this instantiation of the government are very tech-savvy people, connected to some of the companies powering the movement towards digital governance. (I noticed yesterday that half of the layoffs in one government agency were rolled back due to a "coding error," which would seem to indicate not merely a digitized process, but the fact that commands are arriving from on high, without too many cooks in the kitchen.)
Fundamentally: the present political moment is phenomenologically identical to a movie -- it arrives on entertainment devices, and is as scripted as 'reality television' was. But the mechanism of the medium isn't anodyne with respect to the audience member.