First came Joel Thompson’s “To See the Sky,” obscurely subtitled “an exegesis for orchestra.”

The viral meme infiltrating our fraught politics began obscurely on a New Zealand radio show on which the hosts help rationalize absurd, illogical purchases their listeners share with them.

You would have to include the Air Force Association and the obscurely named Submarine Industrial Base Council, among others.

But it’s oddly reassuring, and obscurely enlivening, to know they exist.

Republicans do their "managing" a bit more obscurely, but even more harmfully for the whole idea of democracy.