Trump’s El Paso Photo Is Obscene

A really exceptional work of obscenity, like a really exceptional work of beauty, exceeds the ability of its viewers to fathom what they just saw. Did that just happen? But … how? What sorcery created it? Words don’t arrive, and the stammering gives way to silence. The latest publicity photograph of the president in El Paso, Texas, knocked me into silence for a good half hour this morning while I tried…