I know that question might lead us to a recent president but the one I remember goes in a very different direction. I was recently reminded of something I had forgotten. In 1968 the Yippies nominated a pig named Pigasus for their presidential candidate.
This farcical effort to ridicule the two major-party nominees (Humphrey and Nixon) ended with the pig confiscated and some of the Yippies jailed. One policeman even told one of the Yippies they would have to stay in jail because the pig had "squealed on them." Who said the police don't have a sense of humor?
Maybe our nasty politics today could use a Yippie intervention today.
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