The shirt of the guy standing in front of me at Trump's Syracuse rally. pic.twitter.com/kUKsqOTWb5 — Jill Colvin (@colvinj) April 16, 2016

Modern politics is a horrifying sight to stare dead in the eye. It’s an amorphous, vile, contradictory and confounding sight—one that evokes the same pain as staring directly into the sun. A t-shirt seen by a reporter for the Associated Press at Donald Trump’s rally in Syracuse on Saturday is the perfect metaphor for this, for the dark and dangerous times in which we now live.