“HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF,” Karl Marx famously said, “First as a tragedy, then as a farce.” A farce, by definition, is “a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations.”
So the good news is that the United States is currently in the “farce” stage of history. Donald Trump, the buffoonish billionaire lunatic and “short-fingered vulgarian,” won seven of the eleven states that held primaries yesterday for Super Tuesday, making it pretty likely that he will be the Republican nominee for President, even though just a few months back, such a prospect was considered ludicrously improbable by most. In an attempt to appeal to voters, the other Republican candidates have tried to sink to Trump’s level: Rubio called the plane Trump rides on “Hair Force One.” Ted Cruz’s attack was even more ham-fisted. In the meantime, in an attempt to show off his vocabulary, Donald Trump actually said, “I know words. I have the best words.”