Observation

The Gambia

Someone’s appointed
Social media reacts:

Is he one of us?
Yes?
Yay, they couldn’t have chosen a better person for the position.

Every wrong step that he took in the past will be righted and the cost extinguished from collective memory.

If not

Is he one of us?
No?
Man, he’s too old or too young, too tall or too short, too fat or too thin, was too involved or indifferent, overqualified or not up to it.

All the things he did right will be forgotten, and he’d be crucified for that one thing he did wrong.