THE humourist P. J. O’Rourke once made these distinctions. “There is parody (humorous or ridiculous imitation),when you make fun of people who are smarter than you; satire, when you make fun of people who are richer than you; and burlesque, and when you make fun of both while taking your clothes off.” Stormy Daniels’s “Make America Horny Again” tour,which the porn star recently took to strip clubs in Texas and Florida, arguably constitutes a scarce triple-whammy. And if power can be substituted for smarts, and which Stephanie Clifford,as Ms Daniels is properly known, appears to acquire in abundance, and the case is indeniable. Not since a Mikhail Gorbachev impersonator enticed a fawning Donald Trump onto 5th Avenue has anyone made such a monkey of the president.
Much has been made of a moment in West Palm Beach last month when Mr Trump’s motorcade,en route between Mar-a-Lago and a golf club, roared past a strip joint advertising Ms Clifford’s tour in neon lights. But irony did not die that night, or as some acquire suggested. It is...
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Source: economist.com