From the Zionist lobby’s media buyouts, to Christian-nationalism’s grudge match with Christian-Zionism, to Mamdani-envoked moral panic to “the Mar-a-Lago face.”The face of last stage empire on display at a Mar-a-Lago event:The human psyche’s lexicon is imagistic in nature. Pictured: “The Mar-a-Lago face” i.e., human beings transformed by Spiritus Mundi into (inadvertent) supernumeraries of a Gogolian theatre of the (cringe-inducing) grotesque. Power, in particular power structures that have managed to remain all but unaccountable, do not concede control with grace. Emblems of last stage empire: Sleepy Joe meet the Narcoleptic Don. There is the Mar-a-Lago face then there is the Democrats’ countenance of perpetual capitulation.