Political Theatre category archive

Via C&L.

Excerpt:

So, yeah, Donald Trump is an atrocity, but he’s a Republican atrocity.

My Congressperson has been booted from his local party.

Outgoing U.S. Rep. Scott Rigell of Virginia Beach has resigned his membership in the city’s Republican Party because he was facing expulsion for not backing the GOP presidential nominee, a Rigell aide said in an email.

Rigell, who opposes party nominee Donald Trump, announced in a New York Times story Friday that he would vote for Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, a former governor of New Mexico.

(snip)

The Republican Party of Virginia Beach’s bylaws say any member who endorses or gives a donation to a candidate who isn’t the Republican nominee is considered to have resigned from the local chapter.

I have voted against Mr. Rigell every chance I’ve had since moving to these parts; had I had more opportunities, I’d have voted against him more times. Nevertheless, despite disagreeing with him on almost every issue, I will concede freely that he has conducted himself like a grown-up in office.

He is still a member of the national Republican Party, who experience shows us will let almost any loon into the door so long as he or she repeats the loyalty oath to St. Ronnie of Reagan.

Shaun Mullen waxes optimistic.

Via Raw Story.

Richard Wolffe offers an intriguing argument that the Republican Party misplayed its cards long before Trumping the trick.

Northjersey.com’s Alfred P. Doblin proposes Chris Christie to help keep Trump in line from behaving like Trump.

Enter Chris Christie. Or at least he should enter. Christie is the Trump Whisperer, if there can be such a person. It takes an egotist to know one. The bonds that tie Christie to Trump are hard to understand aside from the fact that one of them has fame and money and the other one loves fame and money.

The full proposal is at the link.

Elsewhere, Timothy Egan has the vapors about the sore loser uprising.

Shorter Alan Caron: WYSIWYG.

Michael Hulshof-Schmidt comments on unpopularity, but the deserved and the ginned up kind. A snippet (emphasis added):

The news media, in its misguided attempt to be “balanced,” loves to point out that we face a presidential contest between the two least-popular candidates ever. It fails to analyze its own complicity in blindly adhering to the cartoon version of Clinton. Trump is unpopular — even among many Republicans who weakly support him — because of his stated positions. Clinton is unpopular largely because of an aggressive campaign of fiction and slander. That campaign has succeeded largely because of systemic misogyny.

More at the link.

Jim Wright says that Trump’s no quitter. A nugget:

Trump’s not going to quit the race.

Why should he?

What possible motivation does Trump have to drop out?

That’s what liberals want.

That’s what the GOP establishment wants.

Trump can’t give them that victory, the shame would be unbearable. He’ll blow his own brains out first.

Trump, whatever his other motivations might be, is an attention whore.

Mr. Wright is quite correct. Trump can no more quit than he can pivot. The Trump samba has only one note.

Follow the link for the rest. You will be glad you did.

Tony Norman admits that, despite his best efforts, he cannot look away from the Trumpery. A snippet:

If we were to dig up Franz Kafka, Salvador Dali and Groucho Marx and demand that they brainstorm a presidential race as absurd as this one, they would have to retreat to the land of shadows empty-handed.

Via Job’s Anger.

Via Job’s Anger.