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Without such platforms, politics itself risks becoming a crude form of theater in which voters effectively become actors or even marionettes, enacting scripts they do not fully understand and whose consequences they have scarcely considered.

Standing next to the prime minister of Israel, who nodded along like a demented marionette, Trump said that the U.S. would take over the Gaza strip and assume a "long-term ownership position."

Fashion and culture magazine Dazed said it "captured the public's imagination with its broken marionette looks and Pat McGrath's glassy, porcelain make-up".

His Catholic zealotry prefigures present-day Catholic ideologues like Patrick Deneen and Leonard Leo, not to mention their political marionettes Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas.

It can also reduce the appearance of pores and minimize wrinkles like marionette lines, which go from the nose to the mouth.