Political Theatre category archive
The Deal 0
Mike Littwin is not optimistic. A snippet from his article:
I don’t expect that to happen. I don’t expect much to happen. Some are suggesting that any Trump aide with a conscience should resign. Some are suggesting that if this crisis heats up, there could be the need for a scapegoat. John Kelly, anyone?
If you think this is a crisis point for America — and I certainly do — that doesn’t mean you have to believe it will play out any differently from all the rest. Isn’t the essence of Trumpworld that we now live in the post-tipping-point era?
Image via Job’s Anger.
Nomenclature 0
F. T. Rea explains what’s in a name.
Foxy Davy 0
David describes his experience on Fox News and dissects the Fox host’s tactics for twisting the talk.
Conundrum 0
Yes, it is possible to disapprove of something and delight in it simultaneously.
The Cloning 0
Shaun Mullen has more. A snippet (emphasis in the original):
![John Fulgesang cites Alexander Hamilton: The truth unquestionable is that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of the people and exciting their jealousies and apprehensions, to throw affairs into confusion, and bring on civil commotion. . . . When a man unprincipled in private life[,] desparate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents . . . .despotic in ordinary demeanor--known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty--when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of personality--to join in the cry of danger to liberty--to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicion--to flatter and fall in with all the nonsense zealots of the day--it may justly be suspected that is object is to throw things into confusion that he man](https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AkTkoVM--HM/W0lyhHnWp7I/AAAAAAABz9g/-E0AVTAFtiYxVl3oX7DGqz1jio1QBCqFwCLcBGAs/s640/y-0.png)
The New Look 0
Aside:
I intended for this post to pop Monday, but bobbled it.
I reset it to appear on Monday morning.
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.
(snip)
And what Trump is trying to do is undermine that system, making bullying great again.
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