Milking the Trump cow, I see ;). Seriously, I like the angle. Too bad Broder isn't around to humble himself before the Trump juggernaut like all the other politico-pundits who wouldn't deign to cover pro-wrestling storylines but cannot avert their eyes from the Donald show.

PS Nice front-page callout from Josh

It's a shame that the clean fun and entertainment artistry of professional wrestling would be sullied by a Republican candidate plagiarizing its traditions for political gain. Excellent and revealing essay.

Is nothing sacred from  exploitation by these people?

Great writing.  I enjoyed it.  

So great, Michael.  And congrats on the TPM get.  My lovely, kind grandmother was, for reasons we never understood,  a wrestling fanatic in the fifties--when we still thought all those moves were real and not brilliantly choreographed.  There might have been a time when people thought the same thing about Trump but I don't know that for a fact.  My first look at Trump was on The Apprentice, and his tour through his luxury Manhattan apartment.  It was hilariously over the top--both the apartment and his bragging about how much everything cost him.  It was the first clue that there was no need to ever take him seriously.

But this now:  I'm pretty sure Trump isn't scripting his days in the center ring.  He's flying by the seat of his pants, fueled by his high-octane ego, and much of the fascination is in wanting to be there when he finally crashes.  (Mixed metaphors, I know--I don't know wrestling lingo!)

To the management---is anyone else having a problem with the cursor---I get body slammed when I try to paragraph after ending a sentence.

Dammit, the cursor went back to the beginning and I had to paragraph down with the down arrow.

I do not know how to do this anymore. Might be Windows 10.