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'Weimar America'? The Trump Show Is No Cabaret
Detractors have been equating the U.S. with 1920s Germany for 85 years, and they are still wrong.
Exiting: German democracy.
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“Life is a cabaret, old chum,” sang Sally Bowles in the musical based on Christopher Isherwood’s “Berlin Stories.” I suspect the movie version of “Cabaret,” which won Liza Minnelli the Oscar for best actress, is the nearest older Americans ever got to the Weimar Republic.
Still, it’s not a bad place to start, if you want to talk Weimar and its relevance to Donald Trump’s America.