run wild

At this summer's Republican National Convention, Terry Bollea - AKA Hulk Hogan, the all-American hero - ripped off his shirt to reveal a bright-red Trump 2024 tank top and, in a riff on his own catchphrase, exclaimed: "Let Trumpamania run wild, brother!"

Depression can strip away the illusions people carry about themselves and others, and when that happens, humor, paradoxically, can run wild.

It’s like a metaphor for its own creation: Letting one’s imagination run wild is at once the point of the show and the thing that produced it.

German beer giant Beck’s nonalcoholic lager and Athletic Brewing’s Run Wild nonalcoholic IPA are just two examples of how breweries large and small are trying to tap into the nonalcoholic beer market.

Hulk Hogan’s appearance and appeal to “Trump-a-mania run wild” attests to the power of entertainment and the visual and established memes in contemporary politics.