The absurd surface of the diagonalist alliance masks real, consequential political power

Evidence

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! — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 469

Categorization

• XREF: Directly names the ‘diagonalist alliance’ concept Klein develops — Wolf plus Bannon converging, the Mirror World thesis in miniature.
• QUESTION: The ‘laughing and crying at once’ stance is the emotional core of the doubling device — probe whether it holds in the Israel chapters or collapses.