This chapter in American history, this administration, and this president is a reflection of too many of us. Our own vanity, avarice, and malice. Our lack of literacy in favor of reality TV entertainment. Polarization that pretends to be patriotism. We are the audience now, addressed by a narrator who draws the line between the huckster and the artist: “He gives you illusion with the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.”