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“We understood the Soviet Union was an existential threat, certainly with its nuclear capabilities, it was, and Russia is, but China is even more sinister. It's more insidious in what they have done under this communist regime.”

On the right came a wealthy real estate baron who blamed immigrants, the "deep state" and other insidious actors for America's decline.

On the right came a real estate baron who blamed immigrants, the "deep state" and other insidious actors.

He told BBC Scotland News: "There was no smoking gun - the delay isn't down to some insidious conspiracy to frustrate the road, but there was a complete lack of transparency and clarity about the funding of this road."

And while many insidious and long-reaching national traumas eventually manifest as horror movies like The Exorcist and Get Out, many others curdle into horror of a darker kind because, after all, every person’s dream of a perfect society is someone else’s nightmare.