Political Theatre category archive
An Annotated Guide to Gutless Groveling 0
Michelle Cottle reads between the lines.
Snow Fall(out) 0
Boris Johnson’s colossally stupid Brexit is likely to have all sorts of unanticipated consequences, but at home and abroad. The Local reports on one that I suspect no one expected.
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Since the end of the Brexit transition period, Brits wishing to work in France may need both visas and work permits – and it seems that employers looking for temporary seasonal staff have decided that this is simply not worth the hassle.
“It Can’t Happen Here” 0
Au contraire, argues Gwynne Dyer. Here’s a bit of her article, from the Bangor Daily News:
Writing just after the G7 summit, he warned that “the most dangerous threat (facing the world) is the transformation of the Republican Party in the US into a fascist movement.” Almost every journalist alive has toyed with this analogy – and then avoided it because it sounds like partisan rhetoric rather than hard analysis.
Cockburn points out that Trump’s presidency had many of the attitudes and behaviors of a fascist regime – extreme nationalism, racist hatred of minorities, disregard of the law and constant denial of the truth – but that it failed one crucial test. It did not include automatic re-election, and so Trump lost control.
Follow the link for a discussion of Republican strategies to remedy that last failing.
Gutting Out the Vote 0
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports on cancel culture, Republican style. A snippet:
A Titanic Challenge 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., is somewhat less than optimistic. A nugget:
This country no longer has that. Rather, it has the Democrats and the Donald Trump Fan Club the Republicans have become.
Too many Democratic lawmakers seem not to understand this. They don’t get that you can no more negotiate with a cult of personality than you can with a shattered window . . . .
A Quibble 0
Methinks that what Michael Corrigan thinks “will be interesting if” it happens has already come to pass.
Fantasy Land 0
The Seattle Times’s David Horsey recalls the film, Independence Day, and the fantasy it presented. He contrasts it with the reality of humans’ response to climate change. A snippet; much more at the link.
Horsey is not sanguine.
Nor, for that matter, am I. I fear that we are well past the tipping point.
An Apt Comparison, the Art of the Con Dept. 0
Farron shares the best analogy yet.
See Straws. Grasp. 0
The editorial board of the Las Vegas Sun, is, methinks, unduly optimistic.
Signs of the Times, Reprise 0
While we’re on the subject . . . .
Stray Question 0
Does this sound like anyone who might have held the post of chief federal executive in the recent past?