A related thread from 2015 - Why Torture Doesn't Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation
People didn't steadily denigrate, mock, and ostracize the extended families of folks who perpetrated, justified, and authorized this against foreigners enough.
It's actually bad for society to suppress moral repugnancy.
Anybody who calls Trump a Nazi for what he does should be even more upset at the individuals who unnecessarily took part in waterboarding foreigners.
It’s performative. They’ll never care about Obama imprisoning John kiriakou the same way they’ll never care about the Iranians murdered in January.