The Horror of Kristi Noem
Two years ago, Cricket the dog revealed everything about Kristi Noem. The same impulsive cruelty and narcissistic entitlement that sent Cricket to a gravel pit just sent Noem out of DHS. The blueprint held. And Pam Bondi is next.
UPDATE: Cricket's Revenge
Nearly two years after Kristi Noem first revealed her "gravel pit" eugenics to the world, the same impulsive cruelty and narcissistic entitlement have finally cost her. This original character analysis is now an accurate blueprint for the scandals that would eventually lead to Trump cutting her loose as Homeland Security Secretary.
It is a terrible archaeology, sifting through the layers of poor Cricket's death, revealing a multidimensional political horror of Noem as a human being, an elected official, and a legitimate aspirant to a vice presidency through Donald Trump's Republican ticket.
There is so much more found in her recounting the dramatic, taboo-crossing impulsive cruelty of killing Cricket. In parsing "The Guardian" report on Noem's upcoming ("now published April 2024") book, three aspects keep turning in my head. Together, these move beyond Cricket's death, connecting Noem et al. to a horror of Lovecraftian scale that keeps revealing more and more as a reader pursues and ponders the events Noem put forward.
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