9 I 2019: Ventriloquist’s Dummies

Trump’s propagandists have stepped up their efforts to inject some mindless fear into the body politic. These motor-mouths are so much in sync during this border wall pseudo-crisis that they seem like a chorus of a ventriloquist’s dummies. Trump himself is apparently working from the script that Stephen Miller (an Eichmann look-alike) keeps re-writing for him. Newt Gingrich is back on Fox News [sic] mouthing whatever he is told to say. Republicans in Congress are so united in repeating their assigned texts that one could think that they are guided by a single mind that does their thinking for them. We are in trouble.