These days, when I read about the ever more bizarre and destructive actions of the so-called leaders of the United States, I think of Tom Lehrer.
When Lehrer quit his long-time career as a satirist, he explained why. “Political satire,” he said, “became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.”
Kissinger was a paragon of virtue compared with what we’re dealing with today. I wonder what Lehrer would have made of these clowns.