Watching the reaction to Colbert’s cancellation, I can’t help thinking that Donald Trump has given everyone reason or permission to speak more coarsely, to throw decorum out the window, to stoop to his low level of discourse and verbiage.
Go f*** yourself! is the new mantra for the time being, voiced by Colbert, along with Jon Stewart and a choir and the whole audience at The Daily Show. It’s directed at Trump in hopes of… what? That it will somehow have an effect on him, that he will suddenly be rattled? Trump is the master of guttural, harsh, unoriginal language. He lives for evoking reactions to his own idiocy.
I can’t see how this is anything but cathartic to us who despise him, yet only amusing to him.
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