Did you hear the one about Hillary Clinton strangling Jeffrey Epstein?

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana — Sometimes, national audiences don’t understand Mardi Gras.

Some national news outlets were tut-tutting about a New Orleans Mardi Gras float depicting Hillary Clinton strangling pedophile Jeffrey Epstein to death with signs that read, “Epstein didn’t kill himself.” They should have kept their tuts to themselves. Nobody was seriously accusing Clinton of murder. The float was satire, within a whole parade full of satire, in a festival increasingly prone to satirical expression.