Understanding the Trump Show
28th December 2017
Holman Jenkins understands the dialectic.
For this viewer, the meaning of the Trump show began to change with last week’s tax bill. Donald Trump normalizes nothing new and outré in our politics after all. He is but an effective parody of the politicians we have, and have long had.
We are also learning something about the relationship, in our age, between the political show and movement, however fitful, on the nation’s business.