When kayfabe gets you killed

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Excerpt Jim Swift thebulwark.com

David Frum recently observed that when you try to stop somebody from falling for a scam, by the time they realize it was a scam, they’re more mad at you for being right than they are at the person who scammed them.

But there’s a difference between people like the Newsmax radio fill-in guy—who bought the scam hook, line, and sinker—and the actual famous people who are only doing COVID kayfabe.

For instance, you may have noticed over the last week or so some anti-vaccine types talking about how Hungary is the great nationalist-populist workers’ paradise. But Hungary is a country that actually has vaccine passports, which are supposedly a form of “Medical Jim Crow.” So which is it?

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