• AdelleChattre
    +3

    She's a patrician Welsh novelist out to cement a particular public perception. She has to start where the marks are before she can lead them down the garden path. If she started right in assuming the lizard people run our otherwise-perfect, frictionless and equal political system, there'd be nothing left for the last acts. Form; her plot; and the storytelling to convince the plebes that populist election victories are illegitimate consequences of evil, foreign schemes; require her to slowly, slowly, introduce her most masterful and insidious villains. Otherwise the outcome of a democratic referendum cannot be transmuted into 'Fake News,' a term of art for things you'd rather people not know as such.