Yesterday we learned that this boy in Texas killed ten people after a girl turned him down because he felt angrily entitled to her affections. At the same time the President of the United States, literally the most powerful man in the world, went on a spittle-speckled twitter tirade complete with lies and threats of harm because he thinks he is being persecuted and deserves our adoration.
Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.