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After Saturday’s shooting, “the harshness of his rhetoric and what he is going to do to protect them has to leverage up — it can’t become more moderate.”

Far from rosy, the emotionally layered mother-daughter dynamic is laced with both believable harshness and unconditional devotion, creating a portrayal that makes the depiction of childhood in most American family-oriented films feel simplistic.

Harshness tempered with naïveté is central to its style and argument.

“Fat Ham” doesn’t flinch from the harshness between intolerant parents and their queer children.

The harshness with which Merchan dealt with Trump’s latest delay ploy also demonstrates that the judge is finished with indulging the sorts of bad-faith tactics Trump’s legal teams have used in the past to delay justice—and, unlike other judges in these matters, is not afraid to say so.