Political Theatre category archive
Emoluments, Reprise 0
At the Bangor Daily News, Linda Wilcox follows the money.
MAGAttributes 0
David offers a theory to explain Donald Trump’s appeal to his base. Methinks he makes some good points. (Warning: David does a short promo for his book at the end.)
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
It appears that Larry David hears a rhyme. Rick Strom parses the poesy.
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*Mark Twain.
Spatial Awareness 0
The writer of a letter to the editor of the New Orleans Times-Picayune argues that (column) size matters.
I don’t know that I fully agree with him, but he certainly raises an intriguing argument.
Sizing It Up 0
A bit from the artist’s commentary (emphasis added):
Springsteen has been using his platform and calling out the needless cruelty of Trump’s policies at his concerts, which in turn elicited insults and attempts at intimidation from Trump.
The president’s response to a superstar musician criticizing how he’s running the country is to launch vague threats about not letting him back in the country. Silencing of critics is authoritarian level nonsense and the president’s willingness to go after celebrity members of the opposition is both incredibly petty and terrifying.
The Rule of Lawless 0
In a longer column discussing the Trump maladministration’s attempt to punish Harvard University for daring to stand up to it, Noah Feldman makes this observation, which methinks is quite en point (emphasis added):
As has become typical of the Trump administration, Noem’s action blatantly violates the law, not even paying lip service to it. Her letter didn’t even deign to claim that Harvard had broken any rules or regulations.
Instead, the letter embraced the “we can do anything we want” reasoning behind so many of Trump’s executive actions.
Vaccine Nation 0
Farron comments on what happens when a science denier is put in charge of an agency that (supposedly) relies on science.
Real Big Men 0
Does this article remind you of anyone in the news?
A Notion of Immigrants, One Man’s Story Dept. 0
Badar Khan Suri, a scholar at Georgetown University, tells what it’s like to be renditioned by the Republican thought police because he had the unmitigated gall to dare to express an opinion.
Fly the Fiendly Skies 0
They get fiendlier every day, and, via the Seattle Times, Michael Hiltzik offers some theories as to why.
The Rule of Lawless 0
At The Denver Post, Krista Kafer details the undoing of due process.
Aside:
The most disturbing thing, of course, is that some members of Congress, persons who have sworn to support and defend the Constitution, seem quite willing to violate their oaths of office so as to undermine the very rights guaranteed therein.