Trump’s funeral rally

Created
Mon, 23/01/2023 - 02:30
Updated
Mon, 23/01/2023 - 02:30
Remember the fuss over a different one? The twice-impeached, much-investigated instigator of the Jan. 6 insurrection was in North Carolina on Saturday for the memorial service of Ineitha Lynette Hardaway, a.k.a. “Diamond” of the right-wing political duo Diamond and Silk. The memorial service at Fayetteville’s Crown Theater was not the political rally for himself that Donald Trump had hoped. Size matters to him. He didn’t get it. The Fayetteville Observer reports that just over 150 people attended the event in the theater that holds 2,400. Donald Trump’s audience was smaller and the event took longer than he’d expected. Still, the memorial service did resemble a Trump rally. Yes, the pillow guy was at Hardaway’s funeral … to praise Donald Trump. Trump’s eulogy had plenty of his usual shtick. Those of a certain age will recall what a fuss Republicans and conservative pundits raised in 2002 over the memorial service for Sen. Paul Wellstone of Minnesota. He’d died in a plane crash along with his wife, Sheila Wellstone, his daughter, Marcia Wellstone, aides Will McLaughlin and Tom Lapic, family friend Mary McEvoy and the two pilots, Richard Conry and Michael Guess. The event was carried on CSPAN and broadcast over Minnesota Public Radio. Over 20,000 attended. And, oh, the handwringing over the inappropriate politicalness of it all! In studying the anatomy of a debacle, many critics have focused on the blunt-edged speech of Wellstone’s close friend Rick Kahn. But the event was designed from the start to be boisterous and, yes,…