American Politics As Entertainment

"This smirk is for you, America."

Trump on SNL: The ultimate implosion of reality

By Gene Seymour

November 8, 2015

Excerpt: ""Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention. Only the utterly implausible, the inexpressively fantastic, can ever be plausible again." Those of you who cherish great sports writing can recognize that quote from 90 feet away. It was the lead paragraph of Red Smith's New York Herald Tribune column on the Miracle at Coogan's Bluff, the epochal walk-off homer by Bobby Thomson that vaulted the New York Giants over the Brooklyn Dodgers for the 1951 National League pennant."

http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/08/opinions/seymour-donald-trump-on-snl/

Melania Trump

First Lady

Or, First Centerfold?

Trump's Immigrant Slovenian Wife (And Nude GQ Model) Gives First Interview

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/02/trumps-immigrant-slovenian-wife-and.html

Compendium Of Pax Posts About Donald Trump

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/01/donald-trump-paranoid-style-in-american.html

Donald Trump: The Paranoid Style In American Politics And The Ongoing Festival Of Hatred

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/11/donald-trump-paranoid-style-in-american.html

Update On Ivana Trump's Revelations Concerning Donald's Fondness For Hitler's Speeches 

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/08/update-on-ivana-trumps-revelations.html

"Mediocre Philosophy Sells. It Makes The Half-Literate Feel Smart"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/05/reprise-mediocre-philosophy-sells-it.html

Where Have We Seen Trump's Oratorical Style Before

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/01/where-have-we-seen-trumps-oratorical.html

Trump: For The Fearful, Random Decisiveness Is More Attractive Than Wisdom, Prudence, Truth

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/12/trump-for-fearful-random-decisiveness.html

Spot-On Truth-Teller Donald Trump: The Most Important Thing Said At The Republican Debate

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/12/spot-on-honest-donald-trump-most.html

Moderate Republican For Trump: Only Trump Can Restore GOP Sanity... By A Landslide Loss
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/07/dear-fred-last-night-after-spanish.html

Video Of New Hampshire State Representative And Trump Supporter, Susan DeLemus, A Case Study In Madness

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/12/you-know-how-i-seemed-unhinged-i-am.html

First Lady, Melania Trump, Is A Slovenian Immigrant

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/02/first-lady-melania-trump.html

Trump: For The Fearful, Random Decisiveness Is More Attractive Than Wisdom, Prudence, Truth

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/12/trump-for-fearful-random-decisiveness.html

"Lies, Lies, Lies"

"On The Media" Explores Donald Trump's Appeal And His Historical Background

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/12/lies-lies-lies-on-media-explores-donald.html

Evangelicals LOVE Donald Trump: 

We Are Known By The Company We Keep

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/08/evangelicals-love-donald-trump-how.html

Donald Trump: "Everything I'm About To Tell You Is A Lie." Supporters Cheer

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/12/donald-trump-everything-im-about-to.html

The Self-Chosen Face Of The Republican Party: Not Any Old Asshole... An Asshole's Asshole

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-self-chosen-face-of-republican.html

Trumpward Christian Soldiers

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/08/dear-fred-frank-bruni-published-superb.html

Trump's "Piece Of Ass" Quote

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/eLYkAd68Q3Y/maxresdefault.jpg

Trump Says Illegals Flooding Across Border...

... But In Which Direction? 

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/12/trump-says-illegals-flooding-across.html

"Are Republicans Insane?" Best Pax Posts

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/are-republicans-insane-best-pax-posts.html

Mark Twain, Adolf Hitler And The Dunning-Kruger Effect

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/01/mark-twain-and-dunning-kruger-effect.html

New York Times Interviews David Dunning, Co-Author Of The Dunning-Kruger Effect 

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/the-anosognosics-dilemma-1/?hp&_r=0 

McArthur Wheeler: Patron Saint Of American "Conservatism"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/01/mcarthur-wheeler-patron-saint-of.html

Stupidity For Dummies: The Study Of Ignorance Helps Understand How Intelligence Works

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/01/stupidity-for-dummies-study-of.html

Alan: Despite Trump's encouragement of the worst angels of our nature, I want him to win the Republican nomination 

to reveal the terrified face of American conservatism.

Remember: If you're terrified, the terrorists won.

And you made their victory possible.