'Springtime for Donny'

[jaF0]

Anybody remember the plot of 'The Producers'?


Anybody wanna make a movie? (Extra qewpie doll if you know the TV series I borrowed that line spoken by Jerry Hall from).

 

[LincolnDuncan]

Trump's character is far more unhinged than Dick Shawn's character.

 

[Ms_Ann]

*iggy*

 

[jaF0]

Jun 26 2017 5pm

Bruce Bartlett — former adviser and confidant to President Ronald Reagan — compared Donald Trump’s presidency to the designed-to-fail fictitious musical “Springtime for Hitler” in the Mel Brooks musical comedy “The Producers”

https://an-uncommon-scold.newsvine....scent-and-presidency-to-springtime-for-hitler

 

[jaF0]

Moderates, he said, have been hounded to the margins and ignored. The resulting presidency has been “far, far worse than I imagined. He has instituted policies so right wing they make Ronald Reagan, for whom I worked, look like a liberal Democrat. He has appointed staff people far to the right of the Republican mainstream in many positions, and they are instituting policies that are frighteningly extreme.”
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Trump, said Bartlett, has laid siege to American values and to our position in the world.

“He’s voiced not only skepticism of NATO, but outright hostility to it. He’s pulled America back from its role as an international advocate for human rights. He’s attacked the notion of an independent judiciary. He personally intervened to request the FBI to ease up on its investigation of a former adviser of his, then fired FBI Director James Comey and freely admitted he did so to alleviate the pressure he felt from Comey’s investigation. For those conservatives who were tempted to embrace a ‘wait-and-see’ approach to Trump, what they’ve seen, time and again, is almost unimaginable,” he said.

The problem is not new, however, he wrote. It began many years ago, but “Trump is what happens when a political party abandons ideas, demonizes intellectuals, degrades politics and simply pursues power for the sake of power.”

Bartlett worked under Reagan and his successor Pres. George H. W. Bush, and said that in those days, conservatives at least could be counted on to do research and analysis.
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“In the 14 years since then, I have watched from the sidelines as Republican policy analysis and research have virtually disappeared altogether, replaced with sound bites and talking points,” he said. “Talk radio and Fox News, where no idea too complicated for a mind with a sixth-grade education is ever heard, became the tail wagging the conservative dog.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/ex-...cent-and-presidency-to-springtime-for-hitler/