I feel badly for cartoonists, though their situation is only an extreme distillation of what anyone who's paying attention experiences. Tom Tomorrow writes about this in his weekly enews missive. How do create work that points out the absurdities that politics has become, when that politics is already so absurd that it shouldn't need to be pointed out?
I thought of him when I saw today's Doonesbury:
Garry Trudeau is clearly feeling the same way.
Trump supposedly raised more than $50 million from the ultra-rich last night at a dinner party at a billionaire's home in Florida. They shovel money at him through obvious and less obvious means, while he also grifts smaller amounts from people who somehow believe he's god's chosen one and will bring the end of days.
The rich people, I believe, know he's a buffoon, but he's their buffoon — or so they think. They've revealed they don't care about anything except being rich and keeping their children rich.
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