why is the cast of characters so small, that we have to recycle this particular villain? it’s hard not to gotta-hand-it-to-them a bit on “US elites”, given how the same disappointments and mediocrities reinvent themselves in one another’s company where “new blood” or “merit” might otherwise appear.

(it’s even worse when you read the story. Dershowitz. Barr. a “dream team” of (in)famous hacks.)