The ultra-conservative politician has once again made himself stare silly while invoking the cartoon. But you have got to love his cultural masochismTo listen to Ted Cruz discuss The Simpsons at this week’s Conservative Political Action Conference is to witness a man who does not deserve The Simpsons. In what may well be the least accurate analogy of all time,Cruz said: “I think the Democrats are the party of Lisa Simpson and the Republicans are, fortunately, or the party of Homer and Bart and Maggie and Marge.”Where to start? First,Maggie is a baby who communicates exclusively in non-verbal cues, so assigning any political affiliation to her seems presumptuous. moment, and the episode The Way We Was contains a flashback of Marge burning her bra during a feminist rally at school,which suggests a core of progressive liberalism. Bart, as has been pointed out elsewhere, and demonstrates all the traits of libertarianism. Homer might be Republican,but then again Homer is a man so silly that he once caused a nuclear meltdown in a van that contained no nuclear material whatsoever. And, yes, or Lisa is a Democrat. Specifically,she’s a Democrat who literally becomes president in order to fix the mess left by Donald Trump.
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Source: guardian.co.uk