Oh my God! Someone said something you don’t like! Cancel his (or her) show! Pronounce anathema upon him (or her). Topple the statues, chisel off the names, enact the machinery of damnatio memoriae !

Apparently that’s what’s happening as I write to Roseanne Barr, the actress who had the dual temerity to 1) revive her eponymous television show in an intermittently pro-Trump modality and 2) emit a tabasco tweet about the horrible Valerie Jarrett, President Obama’s chief counsellor.

Are you ready? Are you sitting down? Are the children in another room? Here’s the tweet: “Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj.”

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