why is the cast of characters so small, that we have to recycle this particular villain?

it’s hard not to gotta-hand-it-to-them a bit on “US elites”, given how the same disappointments and mediocrities reinvent themselves in one another’s company where “new blood” or “merit” might otherwise appear. nytimes.com/live/2024/11/26/wo

(it’s even worse when you read the story. Dershowitz. Barr. a “dream team” of (in)famous hacks.)