inure

By the time Donald Trump descended the infamous golden escalator in 2015 and won office with the help of foreign actors such as Russian intelligence, this country had become inured to political scandal and lawlessness.

Sadly, all too many of us became inured to the idea that prisoners could be sent to that infamous offshore prison of injustice at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, perhaps never to be released.

"It's not their children who are being pushed down the social housing waiting lists because of migrants coming into this country. They are inured to the consequences of both legal and illegal migration," he said.

In an age of the lone gunman, amid deepening rancor in a society inured to gun violence and militant political rhetoric, the shooting was another potent sign of what counterterrorism agencies are facing.

It is measure of Carter’s determination that he plunges ahead, inured to criticism or reversal.