echoes

"We've been betrayed" Chris Christie pumps the crowd
and some remember this recycled page
from Nuremburg where racist Volk roared loud
intoxicating politics of rage
competing demagogues toss out red meat
as if to buy the loyalty of hounds
a smoke-wreathed blaze that sheds more light than heat
respecting neither honesty nor bounds
by contrast, Nixon seems an honest man
his lies a mere exception to the rule 
but since this debate-cycle once began
all play the voting public for a fool
which of these clowns must be the nominee
my lens is too thick bullshit-grimed to see