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Schtitt's Old World critique: the O.N.A.N.ite U.S. as hilarious, frightening, alien

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Gerhardt Schtitt does not so much dislike the modern O.N.A.N.ite U.S. of A. as find it hilarious and frightening at the same time. Probably mostly just alien.

Context

The Old World observer's exact register on the new polity: not hatred but the mix of comedy and dread the theme keeps eliciting from foreigners (cf. 007's legation). "O.N.A.N.ite" is used as a settled adjective for a national temperament, the political reconfiguration already sedimented into everyday character.

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