Over Their Dead Bodies

Trump and Netanyahu Use Corpses As Political Tools

Dear Reader,

Over the last few weeks, at the end of the Archival August event, I have been pondering how best to address:

1. Trump using Arlington National Cemetery to campaign, which is illegal, even if the decedents’ family members were okay with it.

2. That man’s campaign apparently physically assaulting a member of Arlington staff.

3. That campaign slandering the staff member as mentally ill and (only somewhat subtly) threatening to reveal her face to their followers.

4. The ongoing beef between Trump and the U.S. Army regarding this incident.

Then came the events of this weekend.

Photo by Chad Madden on Unsplash

And with them, a parallel.