Political Theatre category archive
Trumpling, the Surrogate 0
At the Inky, psychiatrist Lawrence Blum offers a quasi-Freudian analysis of the election results. Here’s a bit; follow the link to read the whole thing.
There is a broader lesson to be learned from this election. Issues may be important. Reality may be important. But reality seldom trumps fantasy.
I’m not sure I buy it, but it’s far more persuasive than I would wish. One aspect seems correct: Once they wake up, voters will find that they have been well and truly–oh, never mind.
“We Live in Trumpled Times” 0
Der Spiegel interviews the editor of the New Yorker, David Remnick, regarding his concerns about a Donald Trump presidency. Read it.
Here’s snippet (emphasis added in the body of the text):
Remnick: No it has not and I want to be clear about what I wrote. The whole sentence, the complete thought is this: I don’t think there will be fascism in America, but we have to do everything we can to fight against it. As the Germans know better than we do, disaster can take a nation by surprise, slowly, and then all at once. My deep sense of alarm has to do with his seeming lack of fealty to constitutionalism. He seems to think it is within his rights to trample the First Amendment, to disdain the press, to punish protesters or flag-burners, to ban ethnic categories of immigrants, and so on. He has myriad conflicts of interest. He appoints people of low quality, to say the least. He lies with astonishing frequency and in stunning volume. His temperament and character is precisely what you would hate to see in your children, much less your president. We can wish all these things will magically change once he is in office, but will they?
Trumpling the Elites 0
Via Juanita Jean.
Foiled! Curses Again! 2
Garrison Keillor wonders why the Trump supporters are still cursing him.
What the letter-writers don’t grasp is that cursing is highly effective in person – someone kicks his car in rage, forgetting he’s wearing flip-flops, and flames pour from his mouth, it’s impressive. But you see it in print and it’s just ugly. It makes you pity the writer’s wife.
Do please read the rest. As he did in his monologues on his radio show, he eventually wanders to a damned good point.
The Great Disillusionment 0
Some Trump voters seem surprised to find out that he is exactly who he has been for his whole public life.
Who woulda thunk?
Via Raw Story.
As Ye Sow, So Shall Ye Reap 0
The Great Disillusionment begins (follow the link for more).
When Donald Trump named his Treasury secretary, Teena Colebrook felt her heart sink.
She had voted for the president-elect on the belief that he would knock the moneyed elites from their perch in Washington, D.C. And she knew Trump’s pick for Treasury_Steven Mnuchin_all too well.
OneWest, a bank formerly owned by a group of investors headed by Mnuchin, had foreclosed on her Los Angeles-area home in the aftermath of the Great Recession, stripping her of the two units she rented as a primary source of income.
“I just wish that I had not voted,” said Colebrook, 59. “I have no faith in our government anymore at all. They all promise you the world at the end of a stick and take it away once they get in.”
As Steven M. (q. v.), from whom I got the above link, posits, there will be many more sharing her disappointment as the Trump fairy dust clears and the Trump reality comes into view.
The Return of Mitt the Flip, the Flippiest Flip of All 0
Frankly, nothing illustrates the hollowness at the heart of Republicanism, nor the dominance politics of Donald Trump, more than this.
Warning: Language
Awakening 0