Trump’s ‘theater of the absurd’ pitches up in El Paso

Yesterday, Gavin Newsom, California’s Democratic governor, redeployed nearly 400 members of the National Guard away from his state’s border with Mexico, explicitly rebuking a “manufactured border crisis” and the Trump administration’s political “theater of the absurd.” Indeed, in recent months, Trump’s border rhetoric has become increasingly theatrical, conjuring a violent, lawless scene whose details often lean towards pure fantasy. While Trump and the reporters who cover him often make...