US and UK citizens who protested this criminal impunity read each other’s works from across the pond, while also watching the developments in our respective governments. Each side hoped the other would enforce accountability and thus prompt our own side to do so as well. A blatant crime would occur—Trump confessing to obstruction of justice on television in May 2017; the Kremlin poisoning a woman to death on UK soil in Salisbury in March 201833—that would make the danger so immediate and obvious that we would tell ourselves, “OK, now they have to act.” But no officials did—not with the courage
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