political maneuvering that should not be taken literally.
Or perhaps it’s more like the story of the Jews reading the Stürmer because only there do they control the world: they want it not to be business-as-usual, for him to raze the institutions (“Drain the Swamp”), subdue their enemies both foreign and domestic, etc., and generally to serve as the Flail of God, but they can see it plainly ain’t happening, though it’s sometimes still fun to LARP as though it were.
Or perhaps it’s more like the story of the Jews reading the Stürmer because only there do they control the world: they want it not to be business-as-usual, for him to raze the institutions (“Drain the Swamp”), subdue their enemies both foreign and domestic, etc., and generally to serve as the Flail of God, but they can see it plainly ain’t happening, though it’s sometimes still fun to LARP as though it were.