I mean, you can’t just straight up starve 2 million people to death without everyone turning on you. Have to ratchet up to it one atrocity at a time. Maybe even let up the slack every once in a while -- then double down once the news mellows a bit.

The fact that forcibly relocating millions of people and paving over their homeland to build a resort is now within the Overton window says everything there is to say. Would have been unthinkable even a year ago.