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(Brilliant stuff as always from David Yearsley)
One of the most telling aspects of the Trump presidency is its lack of
music. The inept clutch of Melania and Donald at their 2017 inaugural
ball shuffling about to Frank Sinatra’s “I Did It My Way“ said
everything about the Commander-in-Chief’s utter lack of taste and ideas.
Last November’s Presidential Medal conferred on Elvis only confirmed
Trump’s vacuity. Dead or alive, the King certainly merited the honor,
but the chief executive’s choice hardly fizzed with engaged awareness.
There is no room for the aesthetic in Trump’s set-upon psyche: to call
his cultural awareness stagnant would be to suggest that it had once
flowed in any direction whatever.
Unsurprisingly, then, no battle hymn, no rallying jingle, no Meatloaf
remix, has ridden to Trump’s rescue as things close in around him.
full: https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/22/the-political-lyre-2/
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