American politics is and always has been fraught with paranoia and fantasy, argues Jesse Walker. There's a strongly Gothic element to this, as you can detect from the article's terrific opening paragraph:
On Tuesday the lesbian assassin of Vince Foster won Pennsylvania's presidential primary. In the larger contest for the Democratic nomination, though, she still lags behind a jihadist sleeper agent who is simultaneously a secret Muslim, a secret Communist, and a secret Republican. Whoever wins their race will go on to face a brainwashed puppet of the Viet Cong, and whoever wins that race will then get on with the modern president's central task: serving the interests of Mexico.
Walker then adds a dollop of internet fear with a sarcastic touch:
It must be true, I read it in my email.
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