Political Theatre category archive
Cooch and the Cuckoos: The Reunion Tour 0
Still speaking in code after all these years.
“Confederacy of Dunces” 0
The Booman tries to figure out why there are so many clowns in the Republican clown car.
Trump Glowers 0
Werner Herzog’s Bear tries to understand the appeal of Donald Trump. A snippet (emphasis added):
Donald Trump doesn’t do any of that, which is why his naked appeals to anti-immigrant hatred make him more, not less popular. This is why his Birther beliefs didn’t get him discredited for life. He is just openly saying what a lot of conservatives already think. The Republican party leaders are like the sorcerer’s apprentice. They have called into being a Tea Party that helps get their legions of voters to the polls, but now it has been exploited by a man who is totally outside of their control. This simply could not have happened forty years ago.
Trump Glowers 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., tries to figure out the appeal of blowhard buffoonery to the Republican Party.
The billionaire developer and reality-show host did this because of, not despite, a portfolio of absurd promises, xenophobic rhetoric and preposterous assertions. . . .
And what do 17 percent of Republican votes see in this cornucopia of the bizarre? Let 59-year-old Steve Fusaro of San Clemente, California, speak for them all: “He’s got some backbone,” he told pollsters.
Backbone.
Aside:
Driftglass thinks that Donald Trump has a job: To make Scott Walker seem sane.
Crass Acts 0
It appears that Maine’s Governor LePage is Chris Christie without the suave veneer of urbane sophistication.
Wars and Mongers of War 0
Marco Rubio gets in touch with his inner warmonger.
Making Book, First Edition 0
Subtitle: How To Game the System in an Attempt To Get Ghostwritten Hackery on the Best-Seller List
If you prefer, here is the Reader’s Digest Condensed Book version.
The Big Freud 0
Donald Trump is the Republican id writ large.