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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again? Archilochus

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Future Politiks

Populism is ultimately sustained by the frustrated exasperation of ordinary people, by the cry "I don't know what's going on, but I've just had enough of it! It cannot go on! It must stop!"
- Slavoj Zizek, "First as Tragedy, Then as Farce" (2009)

3 comments:

Gert said...

First they thought he would just lose, then they thought they could manipulate the EC, now they they think they can invoke the 25th!

Next they'll be dreaming of putting lead under his combover... ;>)

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Pence is an evangelical hard-liner. The only man to his Right is Ted Cruz.

Gert said...

I didn't say they had thought it through! ;>)