Here we are, three days into the second Trump administration, and the president has already served up ample reminders of what his political reign is like: erratic, unpredictable, sporadically delightful, intrinsically authoritarian, often horrifying, and always a bit weird and confusing. We've yet to see much at all on the sex front (thank goodness), but with tech-related matters, all the typically Trumpian tendencies have been on full display.
Take last night's full and unconditional pardon of Ross Ulbricht, the creator of dark web drug marketplace Silk Road. Ulbricht was sentenced to two life sentences plus 40 years in federal prison for facilitating drug sales through the website. Such extreme punishment "should give pause even to supporters of the war on drugs," my colleague Jacob Sullum suggested.
And when it comes to ardent drug-war supporters, Donald Trump—who has, on numerous occasions, called for drug dealers to be executed—is way up there.
