Political Theatre category archive
This Week in the Trumpling 0
Shaun Mullen sums it up.
Jokes that Fall Flat and Other International Embarassments 0
Gina Barreca finds Donald Trump’s attempts at humor to be somewhat off-putting.
Suffer the Children (and Their Teachers) 0
Paul Krugman explains why the Republican mania for tax cuts has led to teachers’ protests.
A snippet, describing what happens when Republicans cut state taxes into the bone, requiring cutbacks in services to balance state budgets:
So what conservative state governments have mainly done is squeeze teachers themselves.
Now, teaching kids was never a way to get rich. However, being a schoolteacher used to put you solidly in the middle class, with a decent income and benefits. In much of the country, however, that is no longer true.
Aside:
It’s ironic, in a way, how the Republican belief that there is no such thing as the common good leads to there being no such thing as the common good.
Know Them by the Company They Keep 0
Jay Bookman marvels at the venality of Donald Trump’s personnel. An excerpt:
“The Best People” 0
Dick Polman takes on a personnel matter.
Mything the Past 0
I think that Cheryl Rofer is onto something.
The actual “Old West” lasted about two or three decades.
The “Old West” that Hollywood created never existed. It was no more real than the South of Gone with the Wind.
Not the Mainstream, Just a Pathetic Eddy Off to the Side 0
No, Kyla Mandel, Mitt Romney is not the “GOP Mainstream.” Donald Trump is.
The stream has moved far to the right as a direct result of Richard Nixon’s southern strategy, which has come full circle and consumed the party, to the extent that it doesn’t even try to pretend any more.
Those who continue to give lip service to the mythical “moderate Republican” are living in a fable of their one creation. Worse, they are perpetuating the myth to the detriment of reality.
“Dear Leader” 0
Brian Greenspun, publisher of the Las Vegas Sun, finds the fanatical loyalty of Trump supporters to be disquieting. Here’s bit of column, in which he discusses a “focus” group after George Stephanopoulos’s interview with James Comey:
Follow the link for the complete article. It’s worth the three or four minutes it will take you to read it.
Hannity’s Litany of Lies 0
In Fox News style, Samantha strings assertions and hot air to build a case that Sean Hannity is a serial killer.
Russian Impulses 0
Shaun Mullen suggests that the Trumpling is Russian along.
In an unexpected twist (unexpected me and, I suspect, by Republicans) the DNC has filed a suit. From TPM:
Donald Trump is not named in the suit, but almost everyone else is. Details at the link.
Of course, one of the glories of this country is that any fool can sue any other fool over any fool thing. Whether a suit goes anywhere is a whole nother issue.