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"So Much Winning" — The Week in Editorial Cartoons, Van Gogh Edition, Part 1 [1]
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Date: 2022-12-11
A Brief Summary
x David Fitzsimmons, The Arizona Daily Star @DWFitztooner pic.twitter.com/Z1gAhrpuJ3 — Editorial & Political Cartoons (@EandPCartoons) December 10, 2022
See you next month.
“The Week in Editorial Cartoons” will return after the holidays. I hope all of you have a great Christmas and a prosperous New Year. Happy Holidays!
Part 1 of this week’s diary looks at the uneasy political relationhip between Donald Trump and establishment Republicans. Many of the high-profile candidates that Trump endorsed in 2022 lost important gubernatorial or US Senate races. These included gubernatorial candidates Kari Lake in Arizona, Doug Mastriano in Pennsylvania, and Tudor Dixon in Michigan. Five US Senate Republican nominees endorsed by Trump lost including Blake Masters in Arizona, Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania, Don Bolduc in New Hampshire, Herschel Walker in Georgia, and Adam Laxalt in Nevada. Could more conventional and less controversial GOP candidates have won some of these races? Yes, almost certainly. Even so, decoupling Trump from the Republican Party in 2023 and 2024 will be a difficult process and the eventual result will more than likely be a political bloodbath.
x A VAMPIRE WENT DOWN TO GEORGIA by Dave Whamond
https://t.co/Ni3fOQQTPx pic.twitter.com/9NdmQBYOac — The Cagle Post (@CaglePost) December 8, 2022
In the US Senate Run-off Election, Herschel Walker epitomized the type of candidate Trump likes — a person well-known on television, into conspiracy theories, and a celebrity of sorts no matter how vacuous their understanding of politics and policy. In Walker’s case, among his many shortcomings as a candidate — and as one analyst wrote — he also “has an adversarial relationship with the English language.” The editorial cartoonists had a field day mocking Walker and his inept candidacy.
I should note that Reverend Raphael Warnock, someone with deep roots in Georgia, was a fantastic candidate. Having won two General and two Runoff elections in the past two years has made him somewhat of a political rock star in the Democratic Party.
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In other editorial cartoons, Trump’s 2024 bid for the White House is not considered the success some assumed it will be. It surely doesn’t help that some of his diehard followers — the FOX News Deadenders and the so-called MAGA crowd — keep making fools of themselves.
In the final section of this diary, you will literally walk through some of Vincent Van Gogh’s paintings courtesy of Akira Kurosawa’s movie Dreams and watch baseball great Honus Wagner in a rare 1933 video. He mostly played for the Pittsburgh Pirates in the early 20th century and, later, also managed the team.
This diary has over 40 editorial cartoons and relevant tweets. I’ll post at least another 10-15 I have already posted over 25 cartoons in the comments section about Russia’s and Putin’s options in Ukraine, protests in Iran, the German plot to overthrow the government, Twitter’s problems, and miscellaneous other topics.
I hope to post Part 2 of this diary later tonight or at some point tomorrow. When I do, I’ll post a link here. Thanks.
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