Everything old is new again

Hey look, they're still doing [fill in the shtick]

Over my decades of paying attention to rightwing nonsense, I’ve seen a lot of shtick. You know — lazzi, routines, repertoire, flim-flam; stuff that can be relied on to work on the audience when the performer is short of inspiration and energy (and, often as not, talent and brains). There’s nothing wrong with shtick as such. Show biz runs on it. It’s not…