Springtime? That's Up to Us.

Exclusive new footage from Trump's Madison Square Garden rally just released! What the mainstream media won't show you!

Seriously, this song has been on my mind lately*, in the context of mockery being the only force that fascists are helpless against. They can't stand it when you laugh at them. 

But then, as I watched this clip for the first time in years before posting it, I heard some lyrics from "Hitler" that hit me like a brick:

"It ain't no mystery, If it's politics or history, The thing you gotta know is, Everything is show biz."

Some political observers have shrewdly pointed out that a great deal of Trump's success comes from treating politics like professional wrestling, with all the bombast, hyperbole and fakery that implies. I don't agree that everything is show biz but I think Trump thinks it is. We'll find out if he's right. As I think I wrote in 2020, this election may come down to voters who think wrestling is real versus those who know it's theater.

Don't forget the dark twist of "The Producers": "Springtime for Hitler" became a smash hit. Mel Brooks was WAY ahead of his time.


* I would have posted the original 1968 version, but couldn't find a quality clip of it. This one makes the point just fine, although the horror-frozen faces of the 1968 audience are better.