The Tea Party movement is a great example of finishing the job. Tea Party people worked to get rid of Obama. It was Job #1. It worked. He’s gone, we hope forever. So is Hillary, the worst person in politics. She enabled Bill who enabled the worst kinds of women. 

But the Tea Party moved onto peddling neo-libertarianism as the antidote to both populism and identity politics. Something similar happened to Trump. This story in Politico about various clowns and freaks in the MAGA movement is emblematic of what has become of parts of Trumpism. Ali Alexander, one of the organizers, appears to be the spawn of Sammy Davis Jr. and an Easter Island statue. Judging from his postings, he takes a lot of drugs or suffers from psychotic episodes. The Tea Party, at least, drew a decent class of grifter. Trump’s baggage train, as great as it is drew in its share of freaks and lunatics. It also made fools out of the media and late night TV.

In fairness to Trump and the millions of people who voted for him and still support him, we can’t do much about these freak shows. They’re performers. They go where they can find an audience willing to pay to watch them perform. So the Tea Party wised up. So have so many borderline voters. The Left crazies smartened up a lot of chumps who jumped onto the MAGA train. 

This suggests two rules for dissident politics. One is a variation of the oldest bit of political advice. Never been seen with crazy people or wearing funny hats. Professional pols have people who make sure they are never in the same shot as a crank or weirdo. Smart pols avoid putting themselves in situation where they can look silly, like driving a tank wearing an over-sized helmet or getting goosed by a farm animal. For dissidents, it means staying clear of attention whores and people with heads full of nutty ideas.

More important, it means stay as far away from Progressive media as possible. Mass media is the worst way to get the attention of the public, because it is all bat-crap click-bait, agit-prop and tabloid nonsense. There are better ways to get the public’s attention.

People look at the Left Wing Propaganda shows and people for the same reason people look at pictures of a snake trying to swallow a goat. Today the freak show has moved to the Left. That’s great. It helps Make America Great Again.  

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