Critical Times

Geoffrey Grammer posted a video recently in his YouTube channel in which he comments that the wearing of inflatable frog suits by anti-ICE protestors in Portland is an effective way of rejecting the Trumpist attempts to portray them as dangerous terrorists, through absurd humour. I’m not convinced of the psychological framework that he tries to put round it (“projective identification”), but the violent military style of Trump’s campaign against immigrants certainly is a piece of political theatre, and deserves an (absurdly) theatrical response.