How does a distinguished artist admire Drumpf? - re: David MAMET

[UTUSN]

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https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/feb/23/trump-great-job-president-david-mamet-free-speech-gender-politics-election-rigging-woods

‘Trump did a great job as president’ – David Mamet on free speech, gender politics and rigged elections

.... On to Mamet’s much-documented swing to conservatism, from his stand against the NFL’s kneeling-during-the-anthem protests to his support for Donald Trump. It seems so far away from the leftist leanings of his youth, the critiques of capitalism clearly visible in American Buffalo and Glengarry Glen Ross. “I was never, ever a communist,” he says. “All you need to know about communism is that Marx was a sponger. He lived off Engels’ family who had a furniture factory.”

He was raised as a “red diaper baby”, he adds – meaning his parents were communists – so even to say he is a Republican “sticks in my throat”. But he is a conservative because “I would like to conserve those things I grew up with: the love of family, the love of the country, love of service, love of God, love of community.” And love of the American constitution too. “For those who say the constitution is over 200 years old and can’t still be relevant, I say, ‘Well, what about the Ten Commandments?’ What’s going to rule in its place? Savagery.”

Mamet became a vocal Trump supporter during his presidency, which can’t have been easy in the Democratic stronghold of California. “Well, he did a great job as a president.” Really? “Well, if you put everything you see on these little screens aside and look at what happened during the Trump presidency. We told China to knock it off. We told Nato to start paying their fair share. We moved the Embassy of the United States to Jerusalem in Israel, fixing the only instance in history of a country that didn’t have an embassy in its capital city. Gas prices were down. There was the lowest black unemployment in history …”

There was also Trump’s claim that the 2020 election was rigged. Does Mamet believe America’s democratic process to be flawed too? “It’s an interesting question. I grew up in Chicago, which was run as a mob’s fiefdom by Mayor Richard J Daley. So all elections were rigged. The idea that people are not going to steal elections is ignorance because people steal elections all the time. The question is: ‘What was the extent of the election rigging?’ I don’t know. But was it questionable? Yes.”

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[AZSkiffyGeek]

1. He's been Conservative for ages

I think he’s one of those who changed ideologies after 9/11.

[UTUSN]

2. "conserve... things I grew up with" - make 'murica great again (when I was a know nothing child)

[iemanja]

3. How does an overrated artist admire Trump?

He's a POS. That's how.

[UTUSN]

4. Well, all I knew was his name from resume. POS works.

[iemanja]

5. I've always found his dialogue stilted.

Just odd. It's supposed to be realistic, but I found it the opposite. I never understood his acclaim.

[UTUSN]

6. I find his mindset (now) stilted. You know of what you speak.

[Skittles]

7. who?

[Sucha NastyWoman]

8. I'm with you

Never heard of him.

[Samrob]

9. Most of the moves Trump made are applauded because he moved our Embassy to Jerusalem. The rest is

questionable. Talking smack to NATO about doing more had been done by Obama and NATO was already increasing their security resources. Black unemployment was not the lowest in history, in fact Obama reduced unemployment by far more than Trump since Obama had higher levels of unemployment when he came into office. The last four Presidents have told China to knock it off.

Trump did cut taxes for the uber wealthy so Mamet benefited directly from that.
But no other President in our history ever sucked up to and admired dictators such as Putin, KIM, and Xi like Trump which did more to weaken our stature in the world and hence weaken our security.

[UTUSN]

10. We don't need convincing. Can we convince this dude and those like him?