T he extremist congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who previously alerted the US to the dangers of space lasers , issued a new warning to the American people on Thursday: the speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, has unleashed “gazpacho police” to spy on Greene’s colleagues in Congress. It is, of course, possible that a clandestine network bent on the regulation of cold soup operates deep under the Capitol cafeteria. But Greene was presumably confusing “gazpacho” with the Gestapo , the Nazi secret police. The comments prompted widespread social media mockery, but it’s not the first time soup and fascism have...