I think, for this upcoming American presidential election, I'll vote for Vladimir Putin--again.

It's not that I like what he's done in Chechnya, or that I excuse his political homophobia (I suppose that, in an authoritarian state--even in an authoritarian state whose authority is warmly approved of by 86% of its citizens--you always need some arbitrary, bullshit reason for hauling people in and beating them up), but, given such a non-choice as we are yet once again given, yes, I'd choose Vladimir Putin--or Justin Trudeau. Or anybody. But I like Putin, and would vote for him for president because I think he'd destroy the C.I.A., and the F.B.I., and the D.E.A. Which surely, surely, need to be destroyed. ¿Think you not? How could Putin's (or Trudeau's) destroying, say, those three paramilitary terrorist agencies--with or without exemplary executions--do as much damage to America as the continued existence of any one of them would do? And, assuredly, will do.