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There is a particular mythology that runs like a fault line through the bedrock of American culture — one that has never been adequately named, examined, or confronted. It is the story that the rules do not really apply to the bold. That the clever criminal is more admirable than the dutiful citizen. That getting away with it is the same thing as earning it. That the man who takes what he wants, consequence be damned, is not a villain to be condemned but a hero to be celebrated.

Call it the Jesse James Effect.