Why Are We Humoring Them?

The article focuses on the troubling normalization of political violence and the trivialization of serious issues by figures like Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson. Topics include the dangerous implications of political humor that treats violence as a joke, the rise of trolling as a political strategy undermining sincerity, and how figures like Trump have reshaped political discourse into a continuous farce that blurs the lines between truth and absurdity.