THE BOY WHO CRIED WOLF.

In Aesop's fable, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, the villagers came running several times when the shepherd boy falsely cried "wolf". But they ignored his cries when an actual wolf appeared because of his constant lying. Ergo the wolf ate all the sheep.  Yet in America, Donald Trump told thousands of lies, but his supporters never wised up and when he told one the biggest— that the election was stolen— they bought it lock, stock, and barrel.  They not only believed this greatest of lies, but it spurred them into a frenzy of hatred and destruction. Of course unlike Aesop's fable, the wolf didn't eat all the sheep. This time Trump was the voracious and mendacious wolf, and his followers were the sheep. And there were two idiotic, lying shepherd boys: Cruz and Hawley.