The Republican Dog And Pony Show
by
R.E. Prindle
Mr. Liel
Leibowitz writing for Tablet Magazine has titled his latest effort Donald
Trump, The Last Of The Great Vaudevillians.
Liel hates
Trump. I quote: His stupid statements aren’t designed to be
insightful or even true; they’re designed to give a jolt.
And:
Quote:
In his short
run, Trump has given us a taste of a tradition we [Jews] have carefully crafted
and a reminder that sometimes, to have a serious talk, you need a bloated
loudmouth unafraid to offend.
Unquote.
Does the
above mean that Jews are tutoring Trump and all is just an act? To put himself in conflict in relation to
Trump’s ‘stupid statements’ Liel offers us this:
Quote:
Thankfully,
immigrants are still knocking on the country’s doors, looking for the same old
promise of life and liberty and happiness.
I’m proud to be one of them. But
the cultural machinery these days isn’t interested in common dreams. It’s interested in catering and preserving
differences in the molecules of gender and race and sexual orientation.
Unquote.
So Liel
tells he left the totalitarian State of Israel to find life, liberty and
happiness in what appears in his eyes to be a disgustingly hateful US that
despises his sexual orientation of which we are left to guess. Must have been horrible if he had to leave
Israel to practice it. Well, we all have
problems. Liel nevertheless has brought
up a point worthy of consideration. This
campaign may be designed to be a vaudevillan travesty of an election. While I resent Liel’s indication that Trump
will be the star clown I think there may be some merit in his observation.
There are
indications that the election could be an internecine squabble between the
hothouse occupants of the New York City-Washington DC axis in which we voters
are irrelevant. It calls into question
the notion of the ‘debate’ as pure entertainment. Trump gloats that he gave Faux News the
highest ratings ever. He was the star of
the show, Megyn Kelly being the female lead.
Man-woman, key of any drama.
However the magnificent staging and organization, not to mention
scripting, must have been the conception of Fox unless Trump with the knowledge
of showmanship he has acquired from his TV reality show is behind the whole
thing.
A lot was
given away on the show. We learned that
Donald has contributed money to every single candidate on the stage thus
putting them under obligation which he also admitted. We learned that having contributed money to
the Clinton’s, man and wife, they felt obliged to or were commanded to attend
one of Donald’s weddings. He’s a much
married man. Over the years then the
whole coterie of politicians and businessmen from Obama on down have developed
into an intimate circle.
As a
vaudeville show the drama and action was fast paced with an astounding variety
of acts. Offstage was Hillary Clinton
who was repeatedly referred to as the Democratic nominee. We may have been let in on a secret there
too. That one’s over. Midway in the show an Obama Commissar visited
the show to reprimand Megyn Kelly for not taking Donald to task for a lack of
feminist zeal as Republicans, pointed out several times, are a group of
misogynists. If that opinion was based
on the fact that nobody would want to manhandle the repellent Commissar I don’t
think misogyny was the issue.
This
Commissar was from central casting. A
sturdy, homely, strident wench, she strutted on stage like an angry bull dyke
barking orders. I don’t know for sure
she was but, god, she frightened me and I’m as manly as they come. I don’t have to man up, it’s where I
live. Her repressed sexuality was obvious. While Megyn was not disguising that she was a
womanly woman showing us a lot of attractive thigh the Commissar wore a strange
skirt. It fell below the knee exposing
nothing but ankle but curiously it had a broad white stripe on the sides that
might have been confused as showing a considerable amount of skin. Not that I was that curious. After roaring out commands like the bulliest
of dykes she stomped off stage apparently headed to the bull pen.
It was a
curious episode especially when combined with the clown act of Luntz the
Pollster.
As a
vaudeville show then the ‘debates’ was a tight compact show tightly and well
performed as though the politicians were experienced actors happy to tread the
boards once more. There was a superb
drama between Donald and Megyn who obviously were on intimate terms. Like I said, an internecine combat.
I’m not sure
what’s going on so I’m going to curb my enthusiasm for Donald Trump until the
show develops a little further. There
are really only nine months before the nominees are declared. A lot depends on who drops out now. Seventeen hopefuls is ridiculous. If no one drops out between now and the next ‘debate’
we’ll know that the fix is in. Judging from
the evening’s entertainment Hillary is the designated Democratic candidate but
how Donald will fit in isn’t clear. He
may just be the chief actor in this vaudeville farce or they may deny him a
place in the next one completely ignoring the fact that he is number one
in the polls.
My thanks to
Leil Leibowitz for his misdirected but perhaps accurate observation.
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