I know that the diagonalist alliance Wolf has built with Bannon, as it translates into political power at the state level and beyond, will continue to affect countless lives, and dramatically for the worse. Yet despite this obvious gravity, the sheer ridiculousness of Wolf's antics—the time-travel tweets, the VACCINE INVESTIGATION TEAM T-shirts, the promiscuous and continuous Holocaust analogies—make it almost impossible to fully take her seriously. Or, put another way, Wolf may be a joke, but she's not a funny one. And yet, if I'm honest, my doppelganger has me on the edge between laughter and tears almost all the time!

SEED: An essay angle on how absurdist political performance becomes the vehicle for serious harm — the laughter/tears riddle of engaging unserious leaders with serious consequences.

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, loc. 469