The Hoaxters

7/9/2025

This might have worked a bit better if they’d engaged a commentator capable of putting his tongue in his cheek a little. They didn’t, so as it is, it is a too earnest and simplistic appraisal of those it dubs the “hoaxters”. Those are the people like Hitler, Mussolini, Lenin and Stalin who promised their populations a much improved lifestyle of opportunity and prosperity - only for those dreams to end in wartime ruin. Meantime, we see an United States basking in the sunlight of it’s open democracy and freedom, powerfully and emphatically, and warning of the dangers to this Elysian existence should the fickle and untrustworthy communists ever make any inroads into society on their side of the Atlantic. That’s all the usual flag-waving fayre, so it’s not especially surprising. What is makes