The call is coming from inside the house

New Orleans, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and how quickie radicalization became as American as apple pie

2025 was only hours old when we got news of the year’s first mass murder. New Orleans: 15 dead and 35 injured so far, the alleged murderer a native Texan, an Army veteran, a gun owner, driving a Ford F-150. A by-now-all-too-familiar American story.

He was consumed with overwhelming anger about his divorces, and had a restraining order against him. As a r…