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Only jokes will let us survive our new Clown World

27 January 2021

1:35 PM

27 January 2021

1:35 PM

The inauguration of President Joe Biden has heralded the onset, like no other event in recent times, of Clown World. 

Conservatives, populists and sane people everywhere must now find a new breed of leaders we can trust to tell the truth in these topsy-turvy times: right-wing comedians.  

Luckily, three hilarious political roasts show us how we got here and how we must now proceed.  

In Clown World lies are adopted as conventional wisdom (for example “Trump incited a riot” or “believe all women”) 

In Clown World iis very difficult to speak the truth in public, as Republican Senator for Missouri Josh Hawley found out when Simon & Schuster cancelled his book deal (he objected in the Senate to the conduct of the presidential election).  

Policies in Clown World have an edge to...

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