Thread by @bansisharma

1. Effulgence Of Camille Paglia
Many people may not know much about life and times of Camille Paglia, so a brief introduction first. Camille Paglia is one of the most interesting and explosive thinkers of our time. She transgresses academic boundaries and blows up media forms.

2. Paglia is a registered Democrat, but above all, she is a free thinker. In the 2004 presidential election, Paglia supported John Kerry; in 2008, she supported Barack Obama; in 2016, she neither supported Hillary nor Trump. Keep this in mind for the rest of the thread.

3. An interviewer recently asked Camille Paglia to share her thoughts on Hillary and other potential Democratic presidential candidates for 2020, as well as Donald Trump. She did not pull any punches in her response. Of course, she never does.

4. So ladies and gentlemen, Camille Paglia in her own words:

If the economy continues strong, Trump will be reelected. The Democrats (my party) have been in chaos since the 2016 election and have no coherent message except Trump hatred.

5. I had high hopes for Kamala Harris, but she missed a huge opportunity to play a moderating, statesmanlike role and has already imprinted an image of herself as a ruthless inquisitor that will make it hard for her to pull voters across party lines.

6. Screechy Elizabeth Warren has never had a snowball’s chance in hell to appeal beyond upper-middle-class professionals of her glossy stripe.

7. Kirsten Gillibrand is a wobbly mediocrity.

8. Cory Booker has all the gravitas of a cork.

9. Andrew Cuomo is a yapping puppy with a long, muddy bullyboy tail.

10. Both Bernie Sanders (for whom I voted in the 2016 primaries) and Joe Biden (who would have won the election had Obama not cut him off at the knees) are way too old and creaky.

11. As for Hillary, she’s pretty much damaged goods, but her perpetual, sniping, pity-me tour shows no signs of abating. She still has a rabidly loyal following, but it’s hard to imagine her winning the nomination again, with her iron grip on the DNC now gone.

12. Still, it’s in Hillary's best interest to keep the speculation fires burning. Given how thoroughly she has already sabotaged the rising candidates by hogging the media spotlight, I suspect she wants Trump to win again.

13. I don’t see our stumbling, hacking, shop-worn Evita yielding the spotlight willingly to any younger gal. Enough about Hillary.

14. The interviewer then asked, "Has Trump governed erratically?" Paglia continued:

Yes, that’s a fair description.

15. It’s partly because as a non-politician he arrived in Washington without the battalion of allies, advisors, and party flacks that a senator or governor would normally accumulate on the long road to the White House.

16. Trump’s admin is basically a one-man operation, with him relying on gut instinct and madcap improvisation. There’s often a gonzo humor to it — not that the US president should be slinging barbs at bottom-feeding celebrities or jackass journalists, much as they may deserve it.

17. It’s like a picaresque novel starring a jaunty rogue who takes to Twitter like Tristram Shandy’s asterisk-strewn diary. Trump’s unpredictability might be giving the nation jitters, but it may have put North Korea, at least, on the back foot.

18. Most Democrats have wildly underestimated Trump from the get-go. I was certainly surprised at how easily he mowed down 17 other candidates in the GOP primaries.

19. He represents widespread popular dissatisfaction with politics as usual. Both major parties are in turmoil and metamorphosis, as their various factions war and realign. The mainstream media’s nonstop assault on Trump has certainly backfired by cementing his outsider status.

20. He is basically a pragmatic deal-maker, indifferent to ideology. Trump rose because of decades of failure by the political establishment to address urgent systemic problems, including corruption at high levels.

21. Democrats must hammer out their own image and agenda and stop self-destructively insulting half the electorate by treating Trump like Satan.

So there you have it, insights and insults from the indomitable and unflappable Camille Paglia, an American institution.

The End.

There is more on Deep State, Multiculturalism, Jordan Peterson, etc. where that came from. Here's the link:
spectator.us/camille-paglia…