WASHINGTON, D.C.—A new sphere of American hegemony, with Canada as the 51st state. That sounds fantastic to the man in the purple-hemmed toga and the gold laurel wreath that’s perched around his “Make America Great Again” ballcap.
He’s going for irony, donning the garb of a Caesar for laughs when so many have warned that Donald Trump could imperil democracy in the American republic. Like a centurion, he holds a long staff with a banner that portrays a silhouette of Trump after a would-be assassin’s bullet grazed his ear last summer. A flag with the stars and stripes streams down Trump’s face, instead of blood.
“I think it would be fantastic… for global, political and economic power,” says the man, 27, whose name is Logan Howard.
