At a moment of historic disruption and change with the ongoing COVID pandemic , and the calls for social and racial justice , there's never been more of a need for the kind of local, independent and unbiased journalism that The Day produces. Please support our work by subscribing today. Here is why you should subscribe and support The Day. Over the past four years, many observers, this one included, have found one of the Danish writer's most famous tales irresistible for explaining both Donald Trump and the Republican Party's slavish sycophancy toward him. In "The Emperor's New Clothes," a monarch parades through town naked, having been convinced by swindlers that he's actually draped in an exquisite outfit made of a fabric visible only to those who are not "unusually stupid. Not wanting to be thought dense, everyone pretends they can see the magnificent outfit.