Sunday, May 1, 2016

New Yorker values

There are many of us who would subscribe to The New Yorker for its cartoons alone--twelve or fifteen in each week's issue.

The surprise in the April 25 New Yorker: every cartoon is a Donald Trump gag, beginning with one by (the now, sadly, late) William Hamilton. It shows a middle-aged man--one of Hamilton's typical upper class characters--trying to tease his hair into a Trump forelock

The drawing could be seen as a metaphor for what is happening within the Republican Party--the establishment attempting to bring itself around to embrace their (in Trump's words) "presumptive nominee."

Many funny cartoons.

Of course, if Trump did barrel ahead and become President, the laugh would be on us. And U.S.


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