Stand by for blasting ---

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As the driver of a narrative, Trump intuitively grasps that, to compel attentrion and compliance, a political story must have two core features. First, it must achieve emotional resonance, grip its audience and keep social media ablaze with updates.
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Trump thrives on plot beats, pace, twists, suspense, drama, action, jump scares, cliff-hangers. [...] These dissonances --- these abrupt shofts in focus and tone --- are not an error. They are the whole point.

For the second core feature of a 21st-century political story is its relentlessness.
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Though this deranged notion [to expand the USA's land mass by swallowing Greenland] threatens the entire NATO edifice [...] it is not a conflict with Europe that Trump seeks. I don't think that prospect alarms or seriously crosses his mind. What he is really after is the establishment of a war mentality at home.

This is where spectacle and power converge. In a chilling interview with CNN's Jake Tapper last Monday, Stephen Miller, Trump's increasingly influencial chief of staff, was quite brazen about the administration's view that might and right are inseperable.
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       -- Matthew D'Ancona, "A dark age of spectacle and power",
            The New World, issue 467, Jan 15th 2026, pp 14--15

This is only a taster; I can't do full justice to the original, which is around forty column-inches (one-and-a-quarter pages) in length. (It may or may not now be available for reading in full on TNW's website.) It mentions that the Oik *wants* riots at home, but not why. He's already cried "havoc" and let loose the orcs of ICE, but to cement him in place forever, he needs an insurrection, or something which passes for one to F*x News's satisfaction.

But these pesky citizens will insist on videoing real and contradictory evidence. How long before a camera is reclassified as a firearm?

PS: The Mouth of Sauron, in her press conference just concluded, alleged that there's now been two fingers bitten off by protesters. No pictures, let alone hands, were produced as evidence.