Across American history, the most devastating harm has often come from men in suits, behind desks, wielding pens and executive orders. Legality has too often cloaked atrocity.

We must ask: Are we entering a new era — perhaps the cruelest yet?

Government-sanctioned policies under President Donald Trump — compounded by a paralyzed Congress — are leading directly to suffering, trauma and death. Migrant children are separated from their parents. Transgender youth are denied health care, worsening mental health crises. Pregnant women in Republican-led states have died from treatable complications. Trump’s past sabotage of COVID-19 safety measures is linked to hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths.

This suffering shares a dangerous thread: the normalization of cruelty as policy. And tha

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