Suppose a Republican presidential candidate spent the entire campaign promising to blow up the moon if elected. “America can, should, must, and will blow up the moon,” this candidate boomed over and over on the trail, aping the characters in a Mr. Show sketch.
Suppose this rhetoric angered all the right people and energized the hell out of the long-dormant working-class anti-lunar vote, and pundits flooded the cable news networks with cheers and condemnations of the candidate’s implausible promise to annihilate Earth’s only permanent natural satellite.
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