Wingnuts Freak Out Over Fetterman "Body Double"

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   The right really does have a large share of credulous morons. It's astonishing how fast this nonsense caught on. And, man, some of these people go from zero to near-religious conviction in sixty seconds or less.

   And none of the obvious alternate hypotheses seem even to occur to them.

   One conservative commenter, trying to talk sense to the sheep stampede, pointed out that finding a double for Fetterman is even less likely than finding one for a more ordinary-looking person. No luck.

   None of this is even to mention the fact that that's not what "body double" means. A body double is someone who substitutes for an actress (or actor) in scenes where only the body is visible. Paradigmatically, it's a person with a nicer body, or who is more willing to be naked on camera. An actor's body double typically doesn't resemble that actor in the face.

   Anyway, the tsunami of crazy that has taken over the American left doesn't mean that the right is inherently any less crazy. The right just isn't currently gripped by the world-historical madness that's infected the left.