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Best of: Why fascism in America isn't going away
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
The Fato Stick - Is There Any Place for Argument?
It's because of his clownishness that he, he transformed politics into something very different. I mean, part of the fato stick is replacing the market place of ideas and and that sort of thing with pure emotion, pure theatre, pure spectacle. And once you're in that realm, that's closer to the roman colisseum or to professional wrestling, than it is to the magisterial debates in in a senate chamber. He always did this to deflect attention. He tried to goad his opposition into calling him a racist,. which would then gin up his supporters who got incredibly excited about being accused of racism. The person they find most obnoxious and vulgar is trumk
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