Opinion: Trump has killed satire
Nothing lasts forever, not even the art of satire. Its long and popular run, tweaking pretensions and foibles of power with cutting irony and deft exaggeration, spanned millennia. From Lucilius and Juvenal in classical Rome to the brilliant likes of Dave Chappelle and Kate McKinnon today, satirists have delighted and challenged audiences with their pinpricks — sometimes dagger thrusts — of acid humor.Alas, satire is dead, as of the second week of July 2020.
In 1729, Jonathan Swift satirized the exploitation of Ireland’s poor by offering “A Modest Proposal” that was anything but. Irish babies, he suggested, could be sold as delicacies for the banquet tables of wealthy British diners. Even savage Swift, however, couldn’t magnify the callousness of late-stage Trump. An average of 1,000
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