In The Footsteps Of Stalin, The Shadow Hecklers Stagger Through The Winter
By Mitch Berg
A group of Obama supporters are planning to hold a “clap-a-thon” to, er, “honor” the outgoing President:
“His legacy is one of kindness and grace,” according to Bejidé Davis, a 29-year-old New York lawyer who organized the clap-out. That opinion is not universally held, to say the least — the consequential policy innovations of President Kindness and Grace include assassinating American citizens, a line that even Prince of Darkness Dick Cheney never crossed — but this is a question of affiliation, not a question of judgment. The people gathering to applaud for President Barack Obama as President Donald Trump waits in the wings are not really making a statement about the outgoing president. They are making a statement about themselves: “This is our tribe.”
And why does that matter?
Kevin Williamson, on the politics of applause, in a piece with too many good parts to pick few enough pullquotes for this post to fall under “fair use”.
January 18th, 2017 at 8:39 am
Obama’s a relentless golfer, isn’t he? Golf clap sendoff seems appropriate.
January 18th, 2017 at 9:04 am
You had me at Bejidé
January 18th, 2017 at 9:26 am
Does a Bronx cheer count to cheer Dear Leader? It’s the best I can do.
January 18th, 2017 at 10:38 am
The Bushs have no tribe.
“Please Clap.” Jeb Bush
January 18th, 2017 at 1:14 pm
I’ll never know, I’ll never know, why I was taken from the line with all the others.
January 18th, 2017 at 2:11 pm
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January 18th, 2017 at 5:38 pm
Do they lacknowledge he ability to see how ironic their show is?
January 18th, 2017 at 5:40 pm
Also Dick Cheney cannot hold a candle to me he is among my minions. Show some respect you liberal loser #nottheguyyouwanttopissoff
January 19th, 2017 at 12:22 am
Clap on! *clap clap*
Clap off! *clap clap*
If I’d known that was all it took to get rid of him I’d have started clapping long ago.
January 19th, 2017 at 7:55 am
The Williamson piece is well worth the read. It brought an ironic chuckle from me since I had only a few days ago read The Gulag Archipelago and the anecdote about the factory manager ending his applause too soon.