Kristi Noem

Crossing the line

Sometimes I worry about crossing a line.

Not because I’m afraid of offending the right-wing, the left-wing, the reactionaries, the populists, or the alt-right cultural conservatives. I worry about upsetting the people who don’t fit neatly into any of those boxes.

Earlier version of the cartoon below.

Most people, like me, don’t live in black or white. We live in shades of grey—our views shifting depending on the issue.

But sometimes, I get angry. Really angry.

Kristi Noem’s press conference made me furious. She knew exactly what she was doing. She allowed the Secret Service to handcuff Alex Padilla, a sitting U.S. senator, and forcibly remove him from a press event. She knew how that would look. And then she lied about it.

At times like these, I do worry about going too far. ↓↓