mesmerize

As a narrative of life — or ancient history or modern America — the paintings mesmerize.

This was his great insight: that he has just the right type of charisma to laser-focus a generalized rage against the decline of American life into a political weapon through artful slander, personal maliciousness, self-aggrandizement, and the ability to mesmerize the public with lies, lies so ridiculous that they could only be perceived as truthful.

But in the years since, Keegan has opted for a path more befitting an author whose tales often mesmerize by thwarting expectations.

Naturally, 50 Cent jabbed at the “Mesmerize” rapper over his involvement with the failed Fyre Festival by posting a now-deleted Donald Trump meme to his Instagram.

It fell into their hands as the fruit of Hitler's satanic ability to mesmerize enough Germans to trade their birthright for a pottage of scapegoating, short-term economic gain, xenophobia, and racism.