David Frum

And para-MAGA decided that Epstein a while ago would be the biggest scandal ever.

Pizzagate was false.

The idea that Hillary Clinton was having bathing in donkey blood, that was false.

Epstein was true.

I mean, not every aspect of it, but there was an Epstein.

He did abuse underage girls.

That was true.

Now, they built a construct about it with a lot of anti-Semitic overtones.

If Jeffrey Epstein had been Godfrey Epworth-

This story wouldn't resonate in the same way.

But it was true.

And he was Jewish.

And many of the people around him were Jewish.

So it was perfect.

And Trump went along for the ride arrogantly, shamefacedly, not giving early signals that, you know what, let's find another scandal here, people.

This one cuts close to home.

So Paramag spent years convincing the really hardcore or the outer fringe of

Not the opportunistically crazy people as Marjorie Taylor Greene is turning out to be, but the sincerely crazy people as Lauren Boebert is turning out to be.

This is the key to all mysteries.

This is the master story of American life.