{"id":40646,"date":"2020-07-06T12:49:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T16:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=40646"},"modified":"2020-07-08T06:00:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T10:00:15","slug":"booted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2020\/07\/booted.html","title":{"rendered":"Booted!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is what the people did back then:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Boss Tweed booted from office in the election of Nov. 7, 1871.<\/strong>
Caricature by Thomas Nast.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Infamous William M. Tweed, the corrupt 19th-century NYC power broker whose ring of cronies controlled the government purse, manipulated the legislature, and embezzled hundreds of millions of dollars, was depicted in defeat as a bloated, gouty Roman consul clutching a broken sword, wearing a royal headband of threadbare dollar signs and a sovereign medallion of his miserable likeness on his fat belly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Would that this were so<\/strong>:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Fast forward to Nov. 3, 2020<\/strong>.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

WRITING THE FUTURE<\/strong>: Infamous Donald J. Trump, aka Twitter Fingers, the corrupt 21st-century American president whose ring of cronies controlled the federal purse, manipulated the Senate, and lined their pockets with hundreds of millions of dollars<\/a>, was depicted in defeat as a bloated, gouty Roman consul clutching a broken sword, wearing a royal headband of threadbare dollar signs and a sovereign medallion of his miserable likeness on his fat belly.<\/p>\n\n\n

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And this too.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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The Tweed caricature by Thomas Nast is from Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine,<\/em>
edited by Constance C. McPhee and Nadine M. Orenstein, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The collages courtesy of Straight Up’s tireless staff.<\/p>\n

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This is what the people did back then: Infamous William M. Tweed, the corrupt 19th-century NYC power broker whose ring of cronies controlled the government purse, manipulated the legislature, and embezzled hundreds of millions of dollars, was booted from office in the election of Nov. 7, 1871. Thomas Nast depicted him in defeat as a bloated, gouty Roman consul clutching a broken sword, wearing a royal headband of threadbare dollar signs and a sovereign medallion off his miserable likeness on his fat belly. Fast forward to Nov. 7, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":40659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,4,20,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-40646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-main","9":"category-media","10":"category-news","11":"category-political-culture","12":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Trumps-Goodbye-532.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sbvgEs-booted","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40646"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40713,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40646\/revisions\/40713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}