The psychopath's ability

Peter Hall's adaptation of Animal Farm in a production by the English touring company Paper Zoo, 2008.

If you want to know how this LEFTIST move toward socialism ends JUST read ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell. The PIGS (socialist left) overthrow the farmer. Before long, the PIGS are at the top of the SOCIAL ladder and the rest of the livestock who helped them get sh*t on by the LEFT. pic.twitter.com/H64b50mzc5

— David A. Clarke, Jr. (@SheriffClarke) August 7, 2018

If you want to know how George Orwell's leftism stood against totalitarianism left and right and for democratic socialism you need to look at a real book instead of a PowerPoint knockoff. https://t.co/D01HDsQPb4 pic.twitter.com/sKKEyWsPQJ

— Demented Words Of Violence And Death (@Yastreblyansky) August 7, 2018

We're off to slay the Wizard!

David Brooks has a peculiar memory:

The fact is, for all the problems we may have with Wall Street or Washington, our biggest problems are systemic — the disruptions caused by technological progress and globalization, mass migration, family breakdown and so on. There’s no all-controlling Wizard of Oz to slay.

Watch your tropes, David! The job isn't to kill the Wizard, it's to get him to send you back to Kansas, where Toto buried your happiness out behind the storm cellar. And the problem is he—the Wizard, not Toto—can't do it for you, it's really up to you:

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Power, and potency, are on Brooksy's mind today. He's riffing off a fun essay by Anand Giridharadas on the theme of the 2016 election campaign being—this is a case where most sides do it—that whoever you are, you think somebody else has all the power:

Cheap shots and doublethinks

Socialists claim Welles, too, Have they no mercy?

Stop Presses!

The latest Obamacare martyr is a celebrity case: none other than Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) who has lost her coverage as well as that of her frail husband and all 27 children or however many it is because of the so-called Affordable Care Act:

Bachmann and Democratic strategist Paul Begala battled over the Affordable Care Act on CNN’s “The Situation Room” on Thursday. But Bachmann made quite the admission when asked by host Wolf Blitzer if she was going to sign up for the health insurance exchanges.

“Are you kidding? I’m not gonna waste an hour on that thing!” the Minnesota Republican said. But Bachmann then added, “I lost my health insurance under Obamacare.”