I'm beginning to think we've underestimated Matt Taibbi (while wishing I knew how to pronounce his family name). He describes Donald Trump on the stump in Iowa as a cross between Don Rickles and Henny Youngman. Here are a few exceptional outtakes.
As is nearly always the case, Trump peppered the Poconos delivery with observations that blow your mind when you pause to consider it’s the former President of the United States saying these things.
Listening to this stuff is like watching a Pope throw open the Vatican door with his balls hanging out. The brain screams to laugh at the situation, but everyone pretends it’s not funny.
This isn’t Hitler, unless we’re talking about the Mel Brooks version. Anyone who argues none of this is funny is lying. If you want to say Trump is funny and a burgeoning fascist threat to democracy, that’s an argument that can be had, maybe.
If Barack Obama was the avatar of upper class probity, a lean multiracial scholar fawned over by the Nobel Committee, Trump was the opposite, an artery-clogged casino boss with bankruptcies and a comb-over.
Voters liked Trump because of the impolitic things he said, not in spite of them. His campaign slogan might as well have been, “A schmuck, but at least I admit it,” something lost on Democratic opponents.
I’ve attended probably thirty Trump speeches across various stages of the last nine years of his political career. (snip) The constant from the start has been Trump’s dedication to not giving a fuck — there’s no other way to put it in English — and institutional America’s equally hard-headed determination to reward him by overreacting.
Trump and his opponents probably share responsibility for turning American politics into a joke, but only one of the two parties is trying to tell us it’s not funny. And “that’s not funny” is a losing political slogan.
I'm reminded of a constant in old Groucho Marx films where he did outrageous shtick and up-tight Margaret Dumont acted shocked. The Donald is a latter-day Groucho, the Outrageous, whereas the media fills the Dumont role.
Trump's having the time of his life getting high on the audience laughter. And he's unpopular with those who don't like pie-in-the-face, insult humor. Trump loves our country, warts and all, while Democrats only see the warts. Hat tip to Power Line for the link.
