The PR attack on Huey was badly handled, amateurish, graceless even. But it was lethal. Huey had laughed off many other scandals, sidestepped them, passed the buck, silenced his critics, suborned them. But this scandal was beyond the pale. It was all about invisible, helpless, rootless people, deliberately driven out of their minds as an industrial process. That was just a little too close to home for most Americans. They couldn’t live with that.