January 14, 2018
The Republican World of Disney
Dana Mathewson
I was thinking of "old" political news, damn if I know why, and it occurred to me again how "Friend Ken" said prior to the 2012 elections that the GOP could "beat Zippy by running Mickey Mouse against him," and after the election I said how it was a shame they couldn't persuade Mickey to run. It just occurred to me tonight that the Republicans' problem was that they ran Gladstone Gander instead of Mickey Mouse, which pretty well guaranteed their failure. (Wish I'd thought of that back then -- what a lousy pundit I make.) Gladstone was, as you remember, the luckiest goose in the world, and a dandy to boot -- but had no friends, at least not among the other characters -- everyone hated him. And his luck always consisted of small stuff. There were no politics in the Disney comics, which was one reason everyone loved them.
I was thinking of "old" political news, damn if I know why, and it occurred to me again how "Friend Ken" said prior to the 2012 elections that the GOP could "beat Zippy by running Mickey Mouse against him," and after the election I said how it was a shame they couldn't persuade Mickey to run. It just occurred to me tonight that the Republicans' problem was that they ran Gladstone Gander instead of Mickey Mouse, which pretty well guaranteed their failure. (Wish I'd thought of that back then -- what a lousy pundit I make.) Gladstone was, as you remember, the luckiest goose in the world, and a dandy to boot -- but had no friends, at least not among the other characters -- everyone hated him. And his luck always consisted of small stuff. There were no politics in the Disney comics, which was one reason everyone loved them.
But if I'm right, and
Gladstone Gander WAS their candidate in 2012, then whom did they run in
2008? And it seems to me that there is no analogous Disney character,
at least from their classic stable, to compare to McCain, unless
perhaps it is Scrooge McDuck, the loner whose only real friend is his
innumerable overflowing bank vaults. True, Scrooge has no trophy wife
with a beer business, and Scrooge is not inherently evil, but hey,
we're only trying to get reasonably close here. I can't think of a
Disney character who hugs his enemies and stabs his friends in the back
repeatedly.
There's
no Disney analogue to Trump that I can see. I don't think Scrooge is
Trump. I don't think we need an analogue to Trump, though. Biden =
Goofy.
That's it for now.
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