The Baffler | A24
Even as the Beltway and media elites have made themselves sick with anxiety over the so-called epidemic of political violence, the humdrum, everyday, acceptable violence of American life—the violence of transphobes, racists, and war criminals in power, of overincarceration, mass deportation, and victimization of the poor—has serenely powered on, untouched by stigma and untroubled by the law. This is because that violence is the law, the brutality on which government rests; it’s violence made legitimate, deemed appropriate and necessary for the administration of the nation.