Drunk with power and high on kayfabe

When attempting to untangle the perpetual schmoz of Trumpmania, it helps to spend time in the WWE glossary.

A former CIA director whose security clearance was taken away recently by U.S. President Donald Trump, pictured in February 2017, last week accused him of being ‘drunk on power.’ Photograph courtesy of Michael Vadon

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

August 22, 2018

In the colourful subculture of professional wrestling that, along with the colourful subculture of reality television, proved the Stanislavski system for United States President Donald Trump’s career as a political actor, there is a concept called �...

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