I could not agree more with that piece. US politics is all kayfabe.

America’s two mainstream parties feign intense hatred for one another while working together to pace their respective bases into accepting more and more neoliberal exploitation at home and more and more neoconservative bloodshed abroad.

Huge

How long have we been played for

You are being played. I trust no one.

Not that Catilin Jihnson is an admitted anti-Trumptser, but did you read the article?

Resist we must with emotional baggage of a child.

The op-ed says essentially nothing, other than to tell readers to relax and trust in anonymous administration insiders who are working against the bad guys on behalf of the people (which is interestingly the exact same message of the right-wing 8chan conspiracy phenomenon QAnon, just with the white hats and black hats reversed).

I tend to believe Q is a left strategy to make their opponents look dopey pretending they're 007 (or 008 sorry nerds). The same breed of person who takes to this Q thing is the same type of person who would believe whatever an authority figure would say, even in the absence of hard facts.