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It IS weird! I remember when there were all these headlines during Trump the first about Mike Pence going to a production and getting an impotent finger wagging from the cast (before continuing anyways, the show must go on you see) and everybody was talking about how much of an epic own it was and it's like.... is nobody gonna ask why Mike Pence finds this play palatable enough to attend in person? Is nobody gonna ask why the drone striker in chief and his genocidaire VP and their ghoul friends welcomed Hamilton into the white house with open arms?? Also why is there literally not a single enslaved person character nor hardly a mention of slavery in the whole damn play? Lin Manual (idc how its spelt lol) Miranda was asked directly and he squirmed a bit and basically just said he didn't want to cuz he didn't find it relevant. Alright, then!

I could write a whole paper on why Hamilton isn't just critically bad but also genuinely, materially bad but i don't wanna eat up space on this post lol.

And the rap fucking sucks I'm sorry, I put a good faith effort into trying to watch the Disney+ production and got about 20 minutes in before checking out from the cringe. It's rappin' granny type shit.

TLDR: The american ruling class merging their mythos with modern pop culture/fandom culture was very effective to the point where even self-identified yank ""leftists"" can't see a problem with supporting it.