All of this pales in comparison to the supreme irony everyone is missing in this whole overblown controversy. Here we have the cast of a musical that holds Alexander Hamilton in an admiring light expressing deep anxiety about a president who just won a stunning upset victory after running his campaign largely based on the political ideas of – wait for it – Alexander Hamilton.
Well, irony depends on its auditor being informed.
You will pardon, I hope, my skepticism about the president-elect's having based his campaign on any ideas in particular.
ReplyDeleteI will say that I had never expected to hear to so many echo Hamilton's dictum that "Your people, sir, is a great beast!", most without having heard of it. But in the newspapers and magazines this seemed to be, in that sense, the year of Hamilton if not "Hamilton".
I find the comparison with Hitler both revealing and odious. On the one hand, there are similarities between the two but Hitler's systematic annihilation of Jews was a tragedy on an unimaginable scale. I feel we disrespect his victims when we compare Trump's rhetoric to Hitler's.
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