{"id":14037,"date":"2022-10-30T08:45:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T15:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=14037"},"modified":"2022-10-30T08:45:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T15:45:56","slug":"the-pelosis-and-a-haunted-america-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=14037","title":{"rendered":"“The Pelosis and a Haunted America”, The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maureen Dowd, Opinion Clumnist, Sunday Review, Oct. 30, 2022<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 Halloween has always been my favorite holiday. I loved putting up twinkling bats and watching midnight monster-chiller-horror movies.<\/p>\n

Not this year.<\/a><\/p>\n

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The world is too scary. Politics is too creepy. Horror is too real.<\/p>\n

When I was a child, on Oct. 31, my older brother would put on a vinyl LP of Mussorgsky\u2019s \u201cNight on Bald Mountain\u201d that he had carefully cleaned. The eerie music was used by Walt Disney in the segment of his animated masterpiece \u201cFantasia\u201d about the surreal celebration of evil during the night of the witches\u2019 Sabbath.<\/p>\n

Chernabog, the lord of evil and death, wrapped in a dark cape, stands atop a jagged peak, summoning ghosts, witches and vampires to swirl out of the mountain and pay homage. I was so relieved when, at dawn, church bells rang and drove them off.<\/p>\n

But now the bad spirits are lurking all around us. They will not be driven off.<\/p>\n

America seems haunted by random violence and casual cruelty every day. In New York, subway riders getting pushed onto the tracks and innocent bystanders being shot. Officials across the country facing kidnapping plots, armed visits to their homes, assaults and death threats. No place seems safe, from parks to schools to the supposedly impregnable, guarded Capitol and homes of the wealthy and well known.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n