David Masciotra, a contributing writer to the Washington Monthly, is the author of several books, including Exurbia Now: The Battleground of American Democracy and I Am Somebody: Why Jesse Jackson Matters. His Substack is Absurdia Now.
Establishment is used as a description and even a slur, but it’s really just misleading.
A man turns himself in to police for old traffic tickets, tells them he has schizophrenia, and after an altercation at a Kansas City, Kansas, jail, is dead less than 48 hours later.
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