Commentary
The Department of Homeland Security’s new propaganda unit, officially called the “Disinformation Governance Board” but ridiculed everywhere as the Biden administration’s “Ministry of Truth,” has been dismissed as a joke since it was announced last month by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
It is a joke (Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis even wondered if it were a “belated April Fools’ joke”), but it is minatory as well as laughable.
In this sense, it may serve an important educational role, for few recent developments—apart, perhaps, from the appointment of Joe Biden as President of the United States—illustrate so graphically the critical political lesson that the preposterous oft seamlessly coexists with the malevolent.
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