I want to write

like this:

You know how it goes: soon enough, as the process unfolds, the press is quoting John Q. Citizen, a 49-year-old bartender, gun owner and churchgoer from swing state Flohiowa and his wife Susie Q., who owns her own seamstress shop -- both of whom are suddenly as on-message as any campaign spokesperson -- parroting talking points right back at reporters, who dutifully report them as examples of the wisdom of the common man.

The Man as Common Parrot