Following the recent attempted assassination of Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, there was an immediate and predictable rush to the microphones.
“We need to tone it down.” “We need to be better.” “We need to lower the temperature.”
The statements came almost reflexively, as if the script had already been written.
The same people now saying “we” have spent years writing and rehearsing the very script they now decry.
It brought to mind a scene from “Blazing Saddles,” when Governor William J. Lepetomane gathers his Cabinet and declares, “We’ve got to protect our phony-baloney jobs, gentlemen,” prompting a chorus of obedient “harrumphs.” When one man fails to join in, he is immediately called out for it.
That scene was meant to be absurd, but it’s hard to
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