Very little shocks me these days. But I was mouth agape from the South Park takedown of Trump that aired yesterday. Wow, they really went there.And bravo to that. Scholars of fascism know that a wannabe despot will face determined opposition from many forces: universities, judges, lawyers, civil rights advocates, a free press. He’ll go to war with all these institutions, just as Trump has with varying degrees of success. But there’s one force that’s potentially more powerful and destabilizing to the regime than all of these: comedy. You see, comedians and political satirists have a superpower. They can strip the leader of his absurd self-aggrandizements and lay him plainly before the people, revealing that the emperor truly has no clothes. The guys at South Park literally did this yesterday, depicting an obese, pale Trump wandering naked in the desert with nothing but his micro penis to keep him company.Sorry
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