Or maybe I really _should_ be worried about evil clones?

Post date: 2021-01-26 03:41:40

A otherwise fairly fact-constrained Washington Post columnist wrote a weird article about spotting evil clones. Is there a joke I'm not getting?

I know that some sections (including the "Perspectives" setion, which this is in) are, yes, pretty open to journalistic creativity, but usually that's apropos of something in particular. For instance, Alexandra Petri's work is pretty obviously satirical but it's generally also pretty obvious from a perusal of the day's news as to what she's riffing on. But this one has me flummoxed for two reasons: first, I don't get the impression there's been some sort of high-profile public reference to "evil clones" to form a basis for a satire, and second, this doesn't really seem like this columnist's style at all? In his other writings, his tone typically wanders from archly wry to whimsical, and his departures from the truth mostly seem to be mild dramatic embellishments on an otherwise factual narrative. So, uh, what's going on here?

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