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It’s quite a striking image, I admit, though I’ve already seen it enough times. Still, I find the response to it puzzling and disturbing. Writer Philippe Lemoine posted on X that he would be “judging people based on their ability or inability to put aside their opinion about Trump and acknowledge that this picture goes extremely hard.” Even people who have a sophisticated approach to interpreting images and generally a realistic view of politics—for example The New York Times columnist Ross Douthat and (for heaven’s sake) The Guardian art critic Jonathan Jones—have been deeply moved and deeply…

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