Kyle Smith writing at the New York Post:
Donald Trump is the punk-rock president America deserves
Donald Trump may favor stodgy blue suits and boring red ties and wear his hair in a strange double combover, but don’t be fooled. That’s how he looks, not who he is. Who he is is a guy with a safety pin through his nose and a purple mohawk. He just pulled off the most punk act in American history.
If you’re a Hillary Clinton voter, or a member of the average media outlet, observing the Trump phenomenon to you was like watching Frank Sinatra in the 1970s: has-been, used-up, going through the motions appealing to a rapidly disappearing demographic, relying entirely on crusty oldies like “My Way.”
Yet the version of “My Way” Trump actually represented was the one gargled by Sid Vicious, the short-lived Sex Pistol, over the closing credits of “Goodfellas” — crude, sneering, shocking, postmodern. None of us could believe what Trump was doing — because no one had ever seen anyone do it that way before.
Some fun writing - she closes with this:
Trump didn’t just throw out the playbook, he set fire to it. And America loved it. Not releasing his taxes? Fine, said America — can you help us game the system too? So antagonizing the media that major news outlets dropped all pretense of neutrality and openly campaigned against him? Not a problem, said America — we hate those sons of bitches too, and the enemy of our enemy is our friend.
Punk is the art of taking the stage with no preparation whatsoever and screaming: It’s me against the world, and what the freak are you gonna do about it?
The last year-and-a-half it was Trump against the world, and the world lost.
Actually, the world won - big time - but some people just need a couple years to figure that out.
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