Scary shit, yet -- THIS IS WHY I FOLLOW YOU, BROTHER!

However, on this side of "The Pond," (particularly in this era of book-banning) -- this paragraph assumes a WHOLE lot: "Our knowledge of history makes it easy to understand that what you saw in the footage above from the Irish politician wasn’t performative but the visceral feeling of someone who clearly understands what’s going on in the world, right now."

Over here, we gotta FIRST get to -- "Our knowledge of history..." No easy feat.