The temptation is to raillery.
But how to satirize a political movement that appears to see self-parody as the highest form of expression? Costumed as if auditioning for a remake of the Talking Heads concert film “Stop Making Sense,” a phalanx of Republican politicians showed up outside a New York courtroom wearing baggy blue suits and red ties, scowling and whining like the master.
The idea, one su…