anti-theatricality and politics: the Showdown

That Trump is something like the apotheosis of the dysfunction of the American system does not mean that he is the end of the story. He may well be the beginning of something much worse. Our job is to make him a blip in the history of American democracy and not the opening act of its demise.- Jamelle Bouie^^^^^^^^^^^^^^"At the end of the classic 1950 film “Sunset Boulevard,” the aging and mentally ill silent film star Norma Desmond imagines that she is acting in a movie directed by Cecil B. DeMille, when in fact she’s being arrested for murder. “I just want to tell you all how happy I am to be back in the studio, making a picture again,” she says to the police and reporters who are there to witness her demise. “You see, this is my life. It always will be. Nothing else. Just us. And the cameras. And those wonderful people out there in the dark. Alright Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my closeup.”Donald Trump may spend his final years enacting his own version of Norma Desmond’s delusion.…

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