Tag: Silvio Berlusconi

The Three Stooges are the stars of right-wing populist melodramas. Real people with real-world problems are more deserving of attention.

Both men sing from the Berlusconi songsheet, denouncing charges against them as partisan attacks while we pay the price.

This primal cry for demagogic leaders today has many echoes, both contemporary and in sync with the American shock wave.

It is easy to demonize this freak that the Americans have elected to be president.

A rebellious, revolutionary campaign, a hostile take-over of an ancient party which has had leaders such as Abraham Lincoln, Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan.

In the animal kingdom, the alpha male respects the existence of an alpha female who exerts an equal level of control.

Such politicians ... can be a picture of Frank Zappa’s words, 'Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.'

Given that it seems likely Donald Trump will become the candidate of the Grand Old Party in the next U.S. presidential election, we must ask ourselves: in what way and for whom would it be a triumph?

Eccentrics of the calibre of the American entrepreneur, or the Czech President Zeman, offer no viable solutions. But they have a function in an increasingly uniform political operation.

In the ‘90s, Berlusconi was what Trump is today — the best show in town.