H.L. Mencken may have had politicians like U.S. Rep. Nancy Johnson in mind when he remarked that “the whole aim of politics is to keep the populace alarmed and hence clamorous to be led to safety by menacing it with a series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
Of course, the threat of terrorism is real, no mere hobgoblin. But the terrorism threat conjured by the new television attack ad of Johnson’s re-election campaign is worse than a hobgoblin; it is a fraud.
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