N comes home from work.
“So do you think the separatists. . .” he starts.
“Huh?” I ask. “Who??”
“Do you think the separatists. . .” he repeats, sees my face, shakes his head and says, “Sorry, too much NPR.”
Obviously, I’m not in touch with anybody who believes in “separatists in Ukraine”, but the Putinoid discourse seeps in nonetheless.