Ours is the Age of Play Acting, in which small characters strut and fret their hour upon the stage, impersonating greater figures.
Consider Donald Trump’s mugshot, taken at the Fulton County Jail following his indictment for conspiring to interfere with the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. Trump evinces a pose of heroic defiance, a pose he clearly rehearsed. Within minutes of its being taken, the mugshot was featured on fundraising messages, and on Trump X’s (formerly Twitter) account, where it soon garnered a quarter of a billion views. Beneath the heroic visage are the stirring words: “Never Surrender.”
For his hour upon the stage, Trump chose to play Winston Churchill.
It’s a free country, and such silliness is constitutionally protected. But these antics demand to be put in perspective.
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