Although it was an extraordinary situation, one of the messages between Mazón and Feijóo tragically indicates what is usual. “They have put together a cabinet that is worthless.” But when so many people die, it’s very visible. Giuliano da Empoli, author of ‘ … The engineers of chaos’, published ‘L’heure des predators’. When he accompanied the President of the Italian Council on his travels, he invented a game with his spokesperson, who loved the series as much as he did. They analyzed the percentage of their favorite fiction every day. “At that time, it was possible to distinguish three main categories of political series. The first, which could be described as heroic, included productions such as “The West Wing of the White House,” in which politics was depicted as a righteous competition between capable and well-meaning people. The second, darker, describes politics as a Hobbesian jungle in which no one is innocent and the only rule is survival. It was the ‘House of Cards’ category…” An aside to recall that Bill Clinton told Kevin Spacey, when he was not an outcast, that fiction closely corresponded to reality. Touch yourself. But the president and his wife devoted themselves without hesitation to violating the Penal Code to get rid of their enemies.
Returning to “The Hour of the Predators”, Da Empoli continues: “The third category, that of sitcoms like “The Thick of It” or “Veep”, by the great Armando Iannucci, showed political life as it is: a permanent sitcom, in which characters almost always unsuitable for the role they occupy, try to get out of trouble in unexpected, often absurd and sometimes ridiculous situations. Our “Vota Juan” and the following also play in this league. It’s a cliché that Trump and his antics, as Iannucci himself said, killed “Veep.” No amount of stupidity from Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) could top that. “A worthless cabinet” is as real as “a house of cards” for Clinton. With Epstein or without Epstein.
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