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I’m less convinced by your argument for “Killers of the Flower Moon,” which to me felt too obeisant to Scorsese’s usual A-team.

In a flush of terrible timing, Porter sojourned to Israel in February for a conspicuously obeisant meetup with Bibi Netanyahu, who on paper is the portrait of the corrupt plutocrat that Porter made her reputation at home skewering.

He has been obeisant to Putin and, until recently, heaped praise on China’s Xi Jinping.

Fielding a far-left candidate, Democrats are likely to hand Donald Trump, enabled by an obeisant Republican Congress, another four years to undermine America’s cohesion at home and its standing abroad.

But they were also amazed at the notion that Cruz — who famously went to the floor of the 2016 Republican National Convention and urged the GOP to “vote your conscience,” not for Trump — had become so obeisant.