Political Theatre category archive
It’s Deja Vu All Over Again 0
A letter to the editor of the Portland Press-Herald points out that we’ve seen this show before.
Ready, Fire, What Comes Next I Forget 0
Paul Krugman considers Donald Trump’s performance at NATO and dissects the madness behind his method. A snippet:
The institutions Trump is trying to destroy were all created under U.S. leadership in the aftermath of World War II. Those were years of epic statesmanship — the years of the Berlin airlift and the Marshall Plan, in which America showed its true greatness. For having won the war, we chose not to behave like a conqueror but instead to build the foundations of lasting peace.
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And what Trump is trying to do is undermine that system, making bullying great again.
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The Lie of the Land 0
Jay Bookman stands analyzes the Trumpeted allegations of aggrandizement. A snippet (emphasis added):
That’s troubling in its own right, to see an American president lie about and create false expectations about the remains of the fallen. At any other time in our history, under any other president, to fake such an announcement would be a major scandal. But under this president, we all know it to be part of a long-running pattern of behavior in which Trump claims credit for great success that in fact never materializes.
The Lie of the Land, Reprise 0
At the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Michael Rich and Jennifer Kavanaugh discuss our national epidemic of truth decay.
Unoriginalism 0
Steve Chapman explains why Constitutional “originalists” are neither “Constitutional” nor “originalists,” but are rather sophists of the highest order.
Rendering unto Caesar 0
Tony Norman reflects of the strange relationship between evangelical “Christians” and Donald Trump. A snippet:
Suffer the Children 0
It’s not scripture. It’s Republicanism.
Russian Impulses 0
Shaun Mullen reads the back story.
Today’s Trends in the Trumpling 0
Brandy X. Lee, writing at Psychology Today Blogs, is not sanguine. A snippet:
As Trump gains experience in the White House, he increasingly casts aside any advice with which he disagrees. His confidants describe the president to reporters as newly emboldened and ready to ignore the cautions of those around him (Haberman, 2018). There is the false hope that giving him what he demands will help appease him, but the opposite is true . . . .
A Civil Tongue 0
Juanita Jean has a point.