The wrong time, the wrong place and the wrong show.
While “Hamilton” may not portray the founding fathers as slave owning and slave raping white supremacists, still, the use of rap music, simple-minded dialogue and black and Latino actors to depict the founders is clearly not intended to engender respect for the great men and great accomplishments surrounding the founding of the republic.
It is a mockery of our great history and a slander of the heroes of the American Revolution and I have no idea how Pence or any other patriot could so misread the malignant agenda of the makers of such revisionist garbage as to show up there in the first place -
- and to pay thousands of dollars for a ticket? What was he thinking?
I do admire Pence, but doesn’t he know that modern portrayals of the founding fathers are leftist, agenda-driven, revisionist propaganda? That the agenda is to discredit the founding principles by discrediting the founding fathers? The exact opposite of the Trump/Pence agenda to Make America Great Again?
Doesn’t he realize that leftists believe MAGA is a “dog whistle” to white supremacists - a battle cry to return to the Greatness of the “good old days” of slavery when only white male property owners could vote?
He was definitely walking into an ambush when he attended that show - I could have told him that!
Unless...maybe....Trump is back to his old tricks of controlling the news cycle, flushing the liberals out, giving them the rope they need to hang themselves. I wouldn’t doubt it. He is on a winning streak, so maybe I should just sit back and eat the popcorn
Would love to write more on the subject...but I actually think it’s precisely because of shows like Hamilton that there is hope for liberals and minorities to come out of the dark side and join the good side eventually.
It’s all about timing. Change and undoing years and years of social conditioning takes time.