The Trump Monster and............................

..................................................................a fable for our time:


And there was afright and desperation and rending of teeth and gnashing of hair  for many were the rice bowls threatened.


The darkest of horrors was that the serfs  might come to choose the manner of their government. For long years the Bicephalous Party had presided over that most desirable form of democracy in which the people had no power. This laudable state they had maintained by never talking about anything of substance, such as unending wars in remote lands beyond the edges of the maps, or the importation of slaves from curious and unwholesome countries or the manufactures of all things by foreign dwarves.


The rest of Fred Reed's scurrilous commentary is here