The Anti-Trump: Oprah for President?
Op-Ed
Who would disagree with the statement that America is a very serious country, in fact, the only country in the world that can claim the planet as a showground for its own will and dictate?! America is a country which can afford grandiose experiments in politics, both foreign and domestic. America has enough power to pay for its own little quirks and whims, always electing its darlings as presidents. And not only that! America can afford abrupt alteration in politics, and, as a rule, it enjoys these sudden shifts. Some ten years ago, America wanted an African American leader of the nation and elected one as chief exec, having probed into a peculiar political stint for a change. America has in recent years tasted the fruits of Kennedy’s charisma and Carter’s humility, Reagan’s spontaneity and Clinton’s tenacity, Bush’s clannishness and Nixon’s craftiness, Obama’s narcissism and Trump’s wildness. The White House has seen thousands of motley days in the hands of its drastically contrasting owners, who still look alike like drops of water even in their disparity. Now rumor has it that the whitest house in the world is getting ready to carry on with its outlandish experiments in its glittering presidential incumbency.
The other day, I came across news online that for 2020 the democrats’ best hope is Oprah Winfrey herself! Oprah has recently moved from soft to hard journalism, having landed in one of the major fields of glamorous political broadcasting. Didn’t you know? Of course, you did: she would never pounce at anything less than the renowned ‘60 Minutes’. The famous American media proprietor, actress, producer, philanthropist and political talk show hostess of a cosmic caliber, might also seize upon the White House! Just think about it: ‘Make America Great Again’ is doomed to sink into oblivion as the message flips to: ‘Be your Best Self’. How about that?
And the funniest part of the big and almost breaking news for us Georgians? Not only are Georgian journalists tempted to get themselves into big politics, but American media biggies are setting an example! And now, I would love for all of you to lend your eye to what I read in the American press a couple of days ago. I am quoting the lovely excerpt word for word, without even a feather-touch of change: “If you need to set a thief to catch a thief, you need a star, a grand, outsized, fearless star whom Trump can neither intimidate nor outshine, to catch a star. We’re through the looking glass here. America is discarding old approaches in politics. Democrats will have to do the same to match the mood to the moment. And that’s where Oprah Winfrey comes in. She is the mirror image of Trump, but more so. Of course, she’s female and he’s male; she’s America’s generous aunt and he’s America’s crazy uncle. And yes, she’s black and he’s white, she’s liberal and he’s whatever he is. It goes beyond that. He’s rich and she’s rich, but she made her $3 billion herself and with no controversy. She is, in herself, the embodiment of the American Dream. He got famous from TV, and so did she, but she became vastly more famous and vastly more successful at it. Oprah would need that, too. She can’t just be the anti-Trump. She would have to find a transcendent message of her own that rose above Democratic constituent service and spoke to the right people in the right states to take the fight to Trump’s underbelly. She can do it, in theory. The question is: Would she want to?” Isn’t this something, folks?
Obama’s landing in the White house stopped forever the two-and-a-half century long white male supremacy in the American electoral realm. Now there looms a chance on America’s shimmering political horizon that a female-non-white resident might conquer America’s shiny political Olympus, thus gagging the world once again from nasty comments on American society’s sense of freedom and democracy. Move over, the domineering tyrannical machos! Feminism is gathering momentum afresh with totally new tints and shades. Next will a gay, darling. What a hack!
Nugzar B. Ruhadze
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