Into the Right-Wing Dreamworld​

In the video, the penguin waddles across a frozen expanse. He is heading away from his colony, into Antarctica’s vast interior, alone. Nothing can stop his solitary march: even if he were caught and returned to the colony, we learn from the sandpapery, Teutonic voice of Werner Herzog, he would set right back out toward the mountains. “But why?” Herzog asks. The video’s caption answers: “Americans have always known ‘why.’” The organ music swells, fugue-like, and suddenly here is Donald Trump, smirking and holding up an executive order, or perhaps a bill.