" Possibly, " said Borgin, in a tone that suggested he was unwilling to commit himself. " I'll need to see it, though. Why don't you bring it into the shop? "
Like, even if you have a general pattern of political compromise between elites and populists, At some point, some group of the elite is going to say, no, we're not going for that.
And it's not enough to say, I'm not going to weigh in on this because we're at a place in our politics where not taking a position on something is taking a position on it.
But by the same token, when some things happens and lives are lost, when we have the political leadership and to a degree the military leadership as well, say and do nothing to demand a response to it.
But I think with a record like this, it's more interesting for me not to do the yay or nay, but to write more about what this record sounds like and what I think maybe the motivations are for it.