*re the political ground shifting -- it's a facile assumption that such shifts are merely emergent phenomena. As wealth and power concentrates over time (as one would expect under global capitalism), the scope for agentive explanations grows.
We know now that the police in the USA is contaminated with neonazis, trump’s right hand is a white supremacist (interesting choice for an Eastern European “Jew”) and what the brits and Americans did in abu gharib was was not “a few bad apples”.
This level of disregard to human lives was brought back home, as the BLM protestors can see when playing violin in a parc warrants calling in the stormtroopers (literarily, most likely).