{"id":12650,"date":"2019-06-13T11:35:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T15:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=12650"},"modified":"2019-06-13T11:40:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T15:40:17","slug":"republicans-arent-funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/republicans-arent-funny\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Aren\u2019t Funny"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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AMERICAN GREATNESS<\/strong>, by Mark Bauerlein<\/a> — June 12, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Conservative intellectuals in <\/em>Washington, D.C.<\/em><\/a> and <\/em>elsewhere<\/em><\/a> are <\/em>gathering<\/em><\/a> to discuss where conservatism stands in the Age of Trump and where it will be after he leaves office. As those deliberations evolve and spill into Republican Party affairs, the leaders better keep one thing in mind: conservatism, now and then, has to be fun, and sometimes funny, too.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

William F. Buckley, Jr., made it fun 54 years ago in a free-wheeling run for the mayoralty of New York, his wit dispelling the despair conservatives felt after Barry Goldwater was thrashed by Lyndon Johnson  in 1964. (Buckley titled his platform statement, <\/em>\u201cMayor, Anyone?\u201d<\/em><\/a>). Ronald Reagan certainly made people laugh, often at his opponents\u2019 expense: \u201cRepublicans celebrate the Fourth of July; Democrats celebrate April 15th.\u201d Laughter helped Arnold Schwarzenegger win California (\u201cDon\u2019t be economic girly-men!\u201d) and, of course, Donald Trump the White House, <\/em>including jokes about himself<\/em><\/a> (\u201cI never had alcohol, for whatever reason. Can you imagine if I had? What a mess I would be. I would be the worst.\u201d).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

They know how important comedy is to public opinion, and they remember that many people preferred George W. Bush to the wooden Al Gore because he\u2019s the one they\u2019d have liked to join for a beer. Besides, they believe, comedy rightly belongs to the Left, from Lenny Bruce and \u201cLaugh-In\u201d to \u201cThe Daily Show\u201d and Tina Fey doing Sarah Palin. If conservatives cultivate their own comedians and audiences enjoy them, 2020 and beyond looks less dim than it did last November after the midterms. Democrats have to stop them: there is no such a thing as conservative humor! <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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