Nina Jankowicz: So Long, Disinformation Nanny

Last month, the Department of Homeland Security marked the much-feared but yet long-anticipated convergence of two disquieting forces: Orwellian panopticon authoritarianism and Washington’s army of frustrated musical-theater nerds.

After Nina Jankowicz was appointed disinformation czar (!) as head of a new agency within the Department of Homeland Security (!!), the world learned that she conceived of the issue as a cute production number from Mary Poppins (!!!). George Carlin famously said that “when fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jackboots. It will be Nike sneakers and smiley shirts. Smiley-smiley.”

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Kyle Smith is the film critic for the Wall Street Journal.

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Last month, the Department of Homeland Security marked the much-feared but yet long-anticipated convergence of two disquieting forces: Orwellian panopticon authoritarianism and Washington’s army of frustrated musical-theater nerds.

After Nina Jankowicz was appointed disinformation czar (!) as head of a new agency within the Department of Homeland Security (!!), the world learned that she conceived of the issue as a cute production number from Mary Poppins (!!!). George Carlin famously said that “when fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jackboots. It will be Nike sneakers and smiley shirts. Smiley-smiley.”