Now I’m not saying Vance is Damien in a velvet blazer, but the GOP’s golden boy meets the Pope on Sunday. The Pope dies on Monday. The world shrugs. That’s how empires collapse — not with a bang, but with a poorly timed photo op.

Words matter. Pseudoscience cloaked in populism has led, time and again, to unspeakable harm.

The rich, after all, don’t do things the way the rest of us do. In their humility, sacrifice is a carefully curated brand.

It appears that this deal is about more than just managing deportations. It’s about a shared vision of power that disregards the very principles of democracy.

Each party, in its quest for dominance, manufactures heroes who become the symbols of righteousness, beyond reproach, and any criticism of them is deemed a betrayal.

It’s not about principle. It’s about power — and power, as we all know, buys airtime. And airtime buys elections.