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Or how about “The Day of the Locust,” Nathaniel West’s landmark novel of American malignancy, in which a painting of the burning of Los Angeles is a hinge that foretells a lethal mob scene outside a star-studded Hollywood movie premiere?

“Our physical safety is being threatened by the actions of the demonstrators outside banging on the windows, which could easily get broken and we’d have a mob scene,” Moore said.

If they had, we might have gotten a mob scene at one of the typically sedate short-film showcases, where an 18-minute project called “The Heart” premiered from a fledgling filmmaker credited as Malia Ann, though she’s much better known as Malia Obama, the daughter of the former president.

Yet they are a big thing in Musk’s experience, because he has more than 100 million followers, and every single thing he posts on the platform results in a mob scene in both the replies and quotes of his posts.

The last time the All-Star circus came to Seattle, in 2001, Don Joss’ labyrinth of trading cards, bobbleheads, autographed balls and other memorabilia was a mob scene.