Pence Must Have Foreseen Hamilton Ambush
Mike Pence’s sometimes role as a conservative “babe in the woods” successfully diversified the GOP toward national victory. His quiet, nice guy foil was just what candidate Trump needed to soften his attacks on the impregnable barrier of political correctness.
Now that the ticket has won, it is indicative that Pence continues to cast himself now and then as a dupe, though he isn’t one in real life. He deliberately infiltrated the Broadway musical Hamilton in New York City, the show and city both still smarting from decisive defeat at the polls.
Jeannie DeAngelis’ recent “‘Hamilton’ Attempts to Lure Pence into a Duel” argues that the musical makes no bones about corrupting American history, almost gloating on the cultural New Order enjoyed by the Democratic Party in recent years: “In addition to incorporating rap, hip-hop, R&B, and pop into the Tony-award winning score, by pretending our founding fathers weren’t white, Hamilton embraces a revisionist version of ethnic and racial history.”
Democratic Party? DeAngelis is quite clear about how entertainment has become a political weapon in recent years: “In fact, choosing to cast white historical figures with non-white actors may be the reason our racially divisive president is such a huge fan of the play.”
The historical Alexander Hamilton was a good pick for creating a modern Democratic Party hero. White like Hillary, Hamilton also has the requisite liberal credentials. He was born in the West Indies, but into an out-of-wedlock dysfunctional lifestyle. Wikipedia notes that he was “Orphaned as a child by his mother’s death and his father’s abandonment,” then cites one critic of the musical who observes that “too many of the numbers are exposition-heavy lessons, as if this were ‘Schoolhouse Rap!’”
Writing a majority of the 85 installments of The Federalist Papers, Hamilton was America’s foremost apostle of big government, one that would strip states of power, concentrate voting strength in the largest urban cities—and establish a national ruler, a national unelected Supreme Court, and a national tax collection system. Individual states became middle managers for the federal government.
Trump’s willingness to slug it out in the arena of political correctness is a first in US campaign politics, but it certainly won’t be the last, as the Hamilton “sucker punch” lets us know. DeAngelis wants us to learn their strategy:
“To guard against retaliation, the left ambushes rivals and subjects them to public ridicule. Then, after openly taunting the defenseless, the offenders rely on the applause of deluded partisans in their midst to lend credibility to deceitfulness, and to justify the ensnaring of political prey….And so, by masquerading as musical theater, the prejudiced cast of Hamilton attempted to make vice president-elect Mike Pence the target of a one-sided duel.”
