Vince McMahon is simply an escaped Tennessee Williams character. In this essay I will
The similar types of theatricality between pro wrestling and the Trump administration (which sometimes rose to the level of out-and-out synergy, as with SBA administrator Linda McMahon ayy lmao) also suggest themselves. Kayfabe and Trumpism also have interesting shared roots in the aesthetics of camp, carnival, charivari, and so forth, aesthetics that can be developed in very different ideological directions depending on how and when one's initial departure took place from the sorts of spaces in which
Polari used to be spoken.
Nightmare Alley--the novel and the two movies based on it, the 1940s film noir and the recent Guillermo Del Toro re-adaptation--is a great literary and cinematic starting point for some of these aesthetics and social emotions in a much earlier form.
