Lyons gets it right: Sometimes, the very good joke is the best, perhaps the only, viable form of rebuttal.
A very good joke goes straight to the brain. It bypasses the neural pathways where mere logic all too often gets hauled down from behind.
With that in mind, we think Gene Lyons has landed the very good joke. He does so in his current syndicated column:
LYONS (7/17/19): So anyway, that’s where I’m coming from as a direct descendant of refugees [from Ireland]. What we have here is a perfect storm of Trumpism: equal parts ignorance and bigotry. Only Trump (born in Queens) could tell Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (born in the Bronx) to go back where she came from.It isn't like the current challenge can be turned back by a good joke. At the end of roughly three decades of lunacy, we let a crazy person get into the White House—and our "press corps" has a sacred rule against discussing the fact that he's nuts!
One good joke can't turn that back. But only Trump could be that dumb? That isn't a bad place to start!
Hidden claim: "Dumb" is much more potent than "racist."
Anthropologically, "dumb" is a judgment that's hard to avoid. "Racist" triggers a fight.
Death by excellent joke: Ronald Reagan ended the 1984 campaign with the excellent joke about refusing to take advantage of Mondale's youth and inexperience.
Even Mondale had to laugh. The campaign ended right there.
To be clear, in an op-Ed titled “Trump’s Brand of Racism Is Nothing New. But It’s Still Ugly”, Lyons does say it is *equal* parts “ignorance” AND “bigotry.”
ReplyDeleteIt’s also a bit presumptuous to assume Trump’s remark stems from ignorance. It’s rather likely he knows what he is doing.
And the days when a candidate could disarm another candidate by a civilized joke are long gone. Especially Trump.
Trump has no record or policy platform to run on, his internal polling shows his lack of support, igniting his base of racists is his strategy.
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You know, Bob, being born somewhere doesn't make you a native of that place. You have be integrated there. You need to feel and to think the way the natives do. Comprende?
ReplyDeleteIt has become routine for Dems to call Republican Presidential nominees "racists". Trump knows that whatever he does or says, he'll be called a "racist". That knowledge seems to have freed him to be completely un-PC. He would have been called a "racist" in any event, so he might as well please his base and attack his critics.
ReplyDeleteThat Trump and Republicans are racist is not news, even worse they are trying to normalize racism as a strategy to cling what power they imagine they have.
DeleteTrump's Total Racist Meltdown Has Fox & Friends Questioning Reality
@4:48 - what you call "normalizing racism", I call "normalizing non-PC language".
DeleteI'm old enough to remember real racism, such as:
-- the express idea that blacks in general are inferior.
-- Legally segregated schools.
-- Preventing blacks from entering white-collar professions.
-- Banning blacks from restaurants and hotels.
Nothing Republicans have done has normalized racist behavior.
A recent Rasamussen survey showed that "32% of Democrats Say Any White Criticism of Politicians of Color Is Racist." I don't buy that definition. Maybe you do, @4:48.
This comment by David in Cal illustrates why he is this commentariat’s Village Idiot, both morally and intellectually.
DeleteTrump didn’t just “please his base and attack his critics.” He leveled false accusations at four Congresswomen and told them to leave the country because they weren’t good enough citizens by his lights. He then stood by while his crowd demanded that the women be deported and later lied about how he tried to stop the mob from chanting.
The failure to understand what happened stems from DAinCA’s intellectual deficit.
But this comment also illustrates DAinCA’s moral idiocy: DAinCA’s hero Trump would have been called a racist “in any event,” so Trump “might as well” indulge his racism.
My wife already suspects me of cheating, so I might as well have an affair.
My boss already thinks I’m a thief, so I might as well embezzle from the company.
People on my block already think I’m a murderer, so I might as well shoot my neighbor when wakes me up on Sunday morning by mowing his lawn.
Don’t waste your time, @4:48. Explaining things to DAinCA is like trying to teach trigonometry to your dog.
deadrat - I have a lot of respect for your comments, but there are a couple of inaccuracies here:
Delete1. I said Trump thought he might as well indulge, not that I thought so.
2. My comment specifically addressed non-PC behavior, not racist behavior.
I stand by my main point. Unlike past Republicans, Trump deals with accusations of racism by ignoring them and attacking the people who make such accusations. He doesn't let these accusations cause him to modify his behavior. I'm not praising Trump's approach; I'm just pointing it out.
BTW NPR reported that "Fifty-two percent of Americans, including a majority of independents, said they are against the country becoming more politically correct and are upset that there are too many things people can't say anymore." That's why Trump's approach is effective politically.
Define "effective politically". Trump is the least popular president in modern history.
DeleteDemocratics do not care about non-PC speech or behavior. Indeed, they tend to be more casual and crude then the buttoned up and humorless Republicans. The pc issue is a canard trumped up by the right. The right wants to inflate concern over people's rights with being pc because generally they are not interested in helping those in need, they only want to help themselves - they consider these a positive feature of their world view.
It is always hard to look in the mirror when what you see is repugnant. You define racism narrowly, yet one could argue your definition continues to be in full force. Beyond that, Trump and the Republicans are demonstrably racist in rhetoric and actions.
Check out Pence on his day at the zoo:
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Rasmussen is a conservative polling company run by a Republican. They only poll via land lines, and had the largest polling error in the last election, predicting the Dems would lose in 2018.
David in Cal,
DeleteThanks for being anti-PC. I'm sick and tired of the Right-wing PC police telling me I shouldn't point out their bigotry.
Perfect joke. Lyons is great. Trump is a scary clown, and best treated as such in most instances.
ReplyDelete"Even Mondale had to laugh. The campaign ended right there."
ReplyDeleteYou, like all liberals, really despise the rubes, doncha Bob?
You, the superior intelligent beings, would never cast your vote based on a freaking joke, but inferior rubes do it all the time, right?
Nice.
"You, like all liberals, really despise the rubes, doncha Bob?"
DeleteWhat'd Bob do now, try to overturn the ACA, throwing 27 million of them off health insurance?
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