Political Theatre category archive
Suffer the Children 0
It’s still Republican policy, even in these viral times.
“As Seen on TV” 0
Will Bunch has a theory as to why Donald Trump has deployed his secret(ive) police in Portland, Oregon. Here’s the gist; follow the link for the complete article, which is well worth your while (emphasis added):
While on the subject, PoliticalProf has a thought.
Joe Biden 0
It will not surprise my two or three regular readers that I support Joe Biden for President. When I lived in Delaware, he represented Delaware well in the Senate, and he served nobly as President Obama’s Vice President.
I will grant that he does tend to put his feet, both of them, in his mouth from time to time, but he is a good and decent man, as our current President is not.
And, as I point out on the sidebar —–> over there, I vote in the real world, because it’s the world in which I live.
The GOP’s One-Note Samba 0
Martin Longman speculates about the long-term results of the Republican Party’s decision to put all its eggs in one pasty-white basket. A snippet:
Of course, each act of racial polarization and every racist utterance and pronouncement only exacerbated the problem and thus served to justify the next round of outrages. Eventually, only a Donald Trump could adequately encompass and express the kind of racial fear and hatred required to keep the GOP viable.
Are You a Very Stable Genius? 0
The Law Vegas Sun editorial board urges you to take the test and find out.
Secret(ive) Police 0
Earlier this week I saw a report asserting that the Trump administration was, for all intents and purposes, deploying a force of what the commentator referred to as “brown shirts” in Portland, Oregon.
I chose to view it with several grains of salt, thinking it might be a little over the top.
I’m beginning to think that perhaps I dismissed it too cavalierly.
The Missing Link 0
Kyle Whitmire spots what’s missing (emphasis added):
The president can’t. Neither can officials who support him, not our elected leaders here in Alabama nor any in other states.
Reopening the economy is a goal. Not a plan.
Reopening schools is a goal. Not a plan.
Everyone shares these goals. Who doesn’t want to reopen the economy? Who doesn’t want to reopen schools? But only some understand there are steps we must take to reach them.
The Myth of the Middle 2
Ed at Gin and Tacos argues that our notion that the best course of action lies somewhere in the political middle of the road is a nosebag of hooey.
Afterthought:
That might have been true before the Republican Party, under Richard Nixon’s loathsome Southern Strategy, devolved from the party of Ev Dirksen and Nelson Rockefeller to the party of Tom Cotton and Louie Gohmert. (And if you don’t know who Ev Dirksen and Nelson Rockefeller were, you will find a wealth of information, some of it accurate, on the inner tubes.)
