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Cruelty isn’t a political tactic that spins out of control—it’s the point, and power rewards those who deploy it without hesitation.
Institutions fail not only when they break the law, but when they abandon moral boundaries in exchange for proximity to power.
Accountability delayed becomes permission, and permission metastasizes into a governing philosophy.
Stuart Stevens and THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali frame a reality where cruelty functions less as a personality flaw than as an organizing principle, shaping incentives across media, politics, and party loyalty. What emerges is a system that trains participants to surrender dignity incrementally, rewarding silence and punishing conscience until complicity feels pragmatic rather than shameful. This dynamic explains why escalation never reverses itself: each boundary crossed becomes the baseline for the next demand. When accountability is treated as optional or partisan, institutions begin adapting themselves to survive the very forces hollowing them out. The danger isn’t just individual malice—it’s the architecture that converts moral surrender into career advancement.
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