In the excellent Discworld series by Terry Pratchett, the simpleton NightWatch was a Noddy.
In the simpleton minds of today’s Washington press corpse, the heads of our DOJ, IRS, FBI, and White House are noddy but heroes for conspiring to prosecute republican opponents! (And Hillary demanded Nixon be impeached without a lawyer for only asking if the IRS be used against democrats!)
We are doomed. A+++