> A joyless theocracy produces wittier videos than the Trump administration

"One joyless theocracy produces wittier videos than another joyless theocracy" would have laid bare the comparison, I guess.

But this isn't terribly surprising. One of the pillars of the Trump regime is people having grown tired of cloying propaganda that aims to live up to positive ideals (perhaps even earnestly), but then falls terribly short. It's been replaced with some sort of empathizing with the emotional struggles of an entitled dictatorial simpleton, not even claiming to do anything for any type of good reason, but rather just lashing out to exert some kind of mark on a world they don't understand. So traditionally-effective lofty-ideal propaganda just isn't in their wheelhouse.

If there had been some attempt to manufacture a casus belli in that context, then perhaps more Americans would look at the current war and end up identifying with the "totally unforeseeable" struggles of our local regime. But instead without feeling a need for any of this to have happened, we just see utter incompetence, graft, a puppet of Netanyahu, a distraction from the Epstein files (the likely reason for being a puppet), and so on.