Political Theatre category archive
Suffer the Children 0
The Trump administration has created a predators’ paradise by ripping children from their parents and putting them on the counters of old Walmarts.
Russian Impulses 0
Shaun Mullen sums up this week in the Kremlin Kowtowing.
The Rally Crasher 0
(Typo fixed.)
Trolls and Polls 0
Thom and Joe Madison discuss Republicans’ trollish behavior.
Cult Cargo 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Jeremy Sherman explores the fascination of cults, focusing on the Cult of Trump. A snippet (emphasis added):
Cults come in all ideological flavors – left, right, religious, spiritual, philosophical. What they have in common is that deck of fake trump cards, cheap-trick ploys for feigning infallibility, invincibility, and unassailability so members can make everyone else wrong for not agreeing with them.
Trending 0
Thom and Thomas Frank theorize that Donald Trump is not an aberration, but a culmination.
“Pay No Attention to the Man behind the Curtain” 0
Will Bunch theorizes that, for the Trumpers, it’s all about appearances.
I can’t do it justice with a summary. Just read it.
Russian Impulses 0
Aside:
Benjamin Franklin’s statement, “A republic, if you can keep it,” has never been more prescient.
To Detect and Server 0
Farron skewers the “where is the server” myth.