There are many, many terrible things—actually, pretty much everything—about living during America’s rapid descent into authoritarianism under President Donald Trump. One of the most simultaneously galling and confusing things, though, is that some of the very worst conservatives from our past are now … on our side? Sort of?

Let’s start with the global war on terror architects and cheerleaders, shall we? These dudes dominated our days and nights in the early 2000s, forever on our television screens, displaying a bloodthirstiness that seems low-key and quaint by today’s standards. It says a lot of not great things about our present moment that these guys have chosen to take high-profile stands against the Trump administration’s actions.

ABC’s Wednesday decision to sideline Jimmy Kimmel bro

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