Sacha Baron Cohen, crime-fighting Obama show why satire is a dying art under Trump

Nearly 20 months into the international embarrassment that is the Trump administration, faced with the prospect that its president may well be a Russian asset of some sort, Americans are in dire need of a laugh. 

Yet political comedians seem incapable of beating or even matching the sheer self-evident ridiculousness of the moment. (Heck, we feel their pain: It’s an impossible task for journalists to keep up with the news, let alone comedians.) 

In Trump Year 2, satire may not be dead exactly — but it’s certainly on life support. 

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