Political Theatre category archive
Trumpling Weinstein 0
At the Boston Review, Bonnie Honig sees both similarities and differences between Donald Trump and Harvey Weinstein. The similarities she perceives are not surprising, but the differences are chilling.
Here’s a bit:
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. . . Trump has changed the rules of the game. Trump would never offer to get treatment to save his job. He would never ask for a second chance. If you are emailing your friends asking for support, if you say you will seek treatment, if you are hoping for another chance, you are already—in Trump’s grade school terms—a loser: reality’s victim, not its maker. The game is over.
Follow the link for the rest; it is quite worth your consideration.
The Gettysburg Depress 0
Werner Herzog’s Bear imagines a Trumpled Gettysburg Address.
Russian Impulses 0
Josh Marshall takes a long and thoughtful look at the Russian cyber-disinformation campaign to exacerbate American cultural and political divisions and defeat Hilary Clinton. Here’s a striking bit:
How Stuff Works, the Right-Wing Noise Machine Dept. 0
In the midst of a larger article about Trump’s fumbled fulminations about expressing condolences to the families of the four soldiers who fell in Niger, Paul Waldman describes the wingnut propaganda process. You can follow the link for the complete article, but here’s the crucial bit:
(Open tag fixed. Darned computers expect you to splet stuf rite.)
Scofflaw 0
In The Sacramento Bee, Erwin Chemerinsky makes a case that Donald Trump’s “Executive Order” to destroy the ACA is disordered (sort of like its signer). The short version is that a law cannot be overturned by Presidential fiat.
Here’s how he starts;
The plain truth that no one wishes to confront is that Donald Trump is walking the path to despotism.
“There Be Dragons” 0
The American Dream is endangered by a cataclysm of stupid and hate and bigotry and incompetence as it has not been endangered by before.
In the past, two or three of those characteristics have occupied that house from time to time. But not all four simultaneously.
Listen to the Silence 0
John Romano did, and he heard something.
Sometimes, the truth is in the silence.
You can learn more by what a person does not say than when they are shouting from a mountaintop. Or so it seems when it comes to Florida politicians.
Follow the link for what he learned.
The “Memory Hole” 0
Brian Klaas remembers George Orwell:
President Trump has brought the memory hole to the United States.
Follow the link to find out why Klaas said that.
Resumes of Ruin 0
Warning: Language.