Tucker Carleson Presents Kavanaugh As An Arthur Miller Martyr - The Play That Taught Ted Cruz So Much About The Plight Of Those Under Judicial Persecution

A few months back I got into a brawl here when I pointed out that Arthur Miller's play The Crucible as history was a total and complete work of hogwash as an example of why it's not only stupid but dangerous for someone to mistake "historical" plays as history.

This just in, Tucker Carlson uses the dear old pinko's play to push Kavanaugh.

TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): Tonight there are more allegations consistent in many ways with the allegations we have already heard. Leading Democrats are calling these new claims “powerful,” “compelling,” and “highly credible.” They are all but daring Republicans to question the new accusers. The victims, they say, must be believed. Here’s a selection of the charges.
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Oh just kidding. That's a scene from The Crucible, which you will remember as the Arthur Miller play about the Salem witch trials.

Miller wrote The Crucible back in 1953, that was a time when liberals still cared about civil liberties and due process, and the right to face your accuser. Miller wrote it as an allegory about the McCarthy hearings.

The McCarthy hearings were a period the left deeply hated, until they took power and re-created it themselves. Nowadays, you wonder if progressives still read Miller's play, and if so, are they outraged by it? Maybe not.

It might seem completely reasonable to them. Mob accuses villager of witchcraft, villager denies it because witches always deny it, "Prove you're not a witch," they scream. The witch can't, proving beyond a doubt that she is in fact a witch -- to the stake she goes.

So much for the use of fictionalized "history" as  "analogy".  Tucker Carlson being nothing if not anal, he, of course, makes an even more botched use of the play to  promote the Supreme Court candidacy of someone who is more likley to be an analog to the infamous Judge Hathorne (Nathiel Hawthorn's ancestor) than even Arthur Miller's imaginary John Proctor.   Not that anyone in the FOX audience would know that much about it.   The use of plays to promote rational thought as opposed to manipulating emotions is an even more sometimes thing than their use as historical discourse.   Their thinking of just how those analogies work most rationally is non-existent but they know how they're supposed to feel about it.

Arthur Miller's best work was when he made it up instead of pretending he was writing history.  I love Arthur Miller's best work.  The Crucible isn't his best and its role in American popular culture is a mixed thing.   My favorite use of it was when Samantha Bee clipped the video of Ted Cruz's appearance in it [it's a must see]. He played the persecuted John Proctor.   You can tell just how important the play was for Cruz and his moral and intellectual development. You can see that from his deep sympathy for the persecuted and victims of judicial abuse