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Who doesn’t want to break the mold of the ‘weekend warrior’ who goes back to work Monday?”And with that phrase “break the mold” you have a third idea: subversion. Or, as Mikhail Bakhtin, the Russian literary critic, might have said, “the carnivalesque.”In Rabelais and His World, Bakhtin wrote that people in the Middle Ages lived two lives an “official life” and a “licensed life.” The latter was played out during carnival, a season spanning in medieval Europe as much as three months out of the year.One life was “full of terror, dogmatism, reverence, and piety; the other was the life of the carnival square, free and unrestricted, full of ambivalent laughter, blasphemy, the profanation of everything . Familiar contact with everything.”If the “official” life doesn’t sound familiar by now, you haven’t been paying attention.The carnival was also egalitarian, Bakhtin wrote, because “the central arena could only be the square, for by its very idea carnival belongs to the whole people, it is universal, everyone must participate.”You can see why RDP might reflect the spirit of the carnival, and why we need something like it today.It brings people together who might not ordinarily do so.
Castor declined to use “graphics or a video tools his TV obsessed client had hoped to deploy.” And the former president was upset Castor “wore an ill fitting suit and at one point praised the case presented by the Democratic House impeachment managers,” The Washington Post adds, even though Trump himself was reportedly also impressed with the impeachment managers and their video presentation. And Castor notably “did what Trump himself has not: conceded Joe Biden won the presidential election,” The notes. He called Trump a “former president,” said he “was removed by the voters,” and argued that Americans are “smart enough to pick a new administration if they don like the old one, and they just did.” Trump continues to insist falsely that he actually won the election, and this “big lie” that the election was “stolen” from him undergirds his entire impeachment trial.
Rounding out the appointments is Rachael Tuwhangai (of Tainui Waka and Ngti Maniapoto descent). Racheal is the Co Director of MAPSS (Maori and Pasifika Support Services), which focuses on the intersection between indigenous peoples and improving social outcomes, while also providing support in cultural advisory, education and digital technologies. She has a range of experience in the education sector, having previously taught at secondary, tertiary and within prison settings, in both English and te reo Mori.