Of bad hair, top secret emails, old Jews, and the politics of postmodern rage

Rudy, you never looked sooooo good!

Willkommen in der Weimarer Republik von Amerika!

Something is amiss in the Disneyland of First World nations.  Politics now is just a cabaret, old chum, and the stand up acts are, well, pretty darn entertaining.

The world of politics hasn't been this funny since Max Hansen played a gay Hitler on the Berlin stage in 1932, and in doing so inspired a young Mel Brooks decades later to write probably the funniest parody of a bad broadway show ever conceived in the mind of a Jewish comedian.  Nowadays, it's  "Summertime for JEB!" and this very off Broadway production is roasting the Crown Prince's best laid plans of electoral theft and easy entitlement right into oblivion.

If you don't vote for me, you'll get Trump!

And there is a Jew front and center in this production too.  A socialist one. And he is getting the biggest crowds for any act in an uneasy country now appearing to come to grips with its collapsing middle class prosperity and plutocratic political decadence through a curious combination of Woody Allen irony and absurdist comedy.  What are the dystopia scenarios that could play out in the second and third acts of this burlesque fantasy?

If Hillary's email-scandal plagued campaign implodes this fall or early next year over DOJ and FBI investigations, Bernie Sanders will become the Democratic nominee by default unless Joe Biden or perhaps Al Gore or Elizabeth Warren enter the race to claim the vacant nomination.  Should that happen, and Sanders rolls on to win Iowa and New Hampshire, then the GOP race will probably get very interesting.

Falling in love again, they can't help it. Angry 
white men flock to me like moths around a flame!

The only real argument the Republican Establishment has to control its reactionary base is one of electability.  Cruz, Trump, etc. are not electable, but Kasich and JEB! are (well JEB isn't really, and that is the real Achilles Heel for the Establishment this time around).

If a socialist Jew appears likely to win the Democratic nomination this traditional elitist argument will fall apart.  The GOP base will decide it can nominate someone it really wants to take on another fringe candidate of the left, someone stridently reactionary and nihilistic like Trump or Cruz.  This is the Weimar scenario, where Mexicans and border walls replace Jews and backstabbing.

What would a panicked Establishment do, facing say Trump or Sanders as the alternatives? Reluctantly throw in with Trump, under the impression he would be the lesser evil than Sanders, and hope they can have some control or influence?  Would they run JEB! as a third splinter party candidate, and hope he can carry a handful of states, and throw the election into the house where Boehner can elect him, whether he comes in third or not?

The plutocracy would probably make a bad decision regardless.  Just as the German ruling class plunged their country recklessly into Belgium in 1914 and eventually got Hitler in 1933 for their folly, will the denizens of our Herrenklubs, our von Papens and Hugenbergs who plunged the US recklessly into Iraq in 2003 eventually commit national suicide on the altar of a reality show star pretending to be a fascist for profit?