OPINION
Trump's Magic Act Still Dominates GOP
By Ralph Benko
Wednesday, 25 October 2023 11:35 AM EDT
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Charles Dickens commences his novel "A Tale of Two Cities," about the French Revolution, vividly:
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."
That was published in 1859, a story about imagined events of 1775. Now we live in an even more best/worst era.
One of the few things that Karl Marx got right was reprising this: "Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce."
Enter farce. As the late French philosopher Guy Debord observed, we live in the Society of the Spectacle.
A Donald Trump superpower? He fully gets this.
Trump lives it.
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