Capitulation, Succumbency, Avuncular Surrender, Concession, Genuflection, Knuckling, Obeisance, Curtsying, Coprophagy, Subservience, Deferentialism, Prostration, Perianal Osculation ...
Hello. This is about the attitudes that important people, in ghastly numbers, have been exhibiting toward Donald Trump in the last two months.
First came the Republicans, who methodically excised their ranks of all sane people, and then began a parade of servility unseen since medieval serfdom. Then came the big media moguls who, once Trump had been elected, gave him oodles of money as inaugural gifts, agreed to pay his wife tens of millions of dollars for what will be an unrevealing, hagiographic biopic about her vapid, grasping life. Then came universities, particularly Columbia — sigh, the administrator of The Pulitzer Prizes — and then came some of the biggest and previously impressive law firms, such as Paul, Weiss, Rifkind Wharton & Garrison, and then, absurdly, came The Democrats with their sniveling, nauseating capitulation on the budget. And now. finally … journalists. The final frontier of the fawning frenzy. The really, really bad one. Journalists are supposed to be here to help protect us from such things.
The White House Correspondents Association just reneged on its plans to feature a comedian, Amber Ruffin, at its annual awards dinner this year a day after Trump