Kickass, the doorstop dog, says that Trump’s narcissistic presence in the White House has a demoralizing effect on every American household: it makes the householders feel as if there is a rabid bat in the attic and there is no way to get rid of it before it flutters down and bites grandma, poops in the pantry and gets tangled in its own hair.

It is one thing for chickens to come home to roost, but it is quite another for the entire country to be cowed by symbolic psychological bats hanging from the cultural rafters.  If the Russians helped the orange-haired narcissist hang them there we have no choice but to fumigate the attics, the White House and Moscow.