Unlike Trump\u2019s cronies in the White House, outside voices are not so easily disciplined. There\u2019s a lesson here for all future political movements<\/p>\n
If you spend enough time swiping online, you may have seen skits by the American comedian and influencer Druski (real name Drew Desbordes), in which he parodies everything from Republican patriots<\/a> to flashy mega churches<\/a>. Once again, he has exploded on social media channels with a skit satirising \u201cconservative women in America<\/a>\u201d, a nakedly targeted roast of Erika Kirk, now the CEO<\/a> of Turning Point USA (TPUSA) after her husband, Charlie Kirk, was assassinated last year.<\/p>\n Predictably, it has drawn conservative backlash<\/a>, with Ted Cruz calling the video \u201cbeneath contempt<\/a>\u201d. But Desbordes is far from the only one mocking Erika Kirk. Her entrances to the Charlie Kirk memorial and TPUSA\u2019s AmericaFest have been widely memed online for their surreal, WrestleMania-like production and pyrotechnics. In fact, much of the opprobrium comes from her own side. Far-right live streamer Nick Fuentes has disparaged Kirk\u2019s public appearances after her husband\u2019s death (\u201cshe looks like she\u2019s over the moon<\/a>\u201d), and commentator and conspiracy theorist Candace Owens, a former darling of TPUSA, repeatedly takes aim at her<\/a> (Owens describes Druski\u2019s skit as \u201chilarious\u201d).<\/p>\n Jason Okundaye is an assistant Opinion editor at the Guardian<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Unlike Trump\u2019s cronies in the White House, outside voices are not so easily disciplined. There\u2019s a lesson here for all future political movements If you spend enough time swiping online, you may have seen skits by the American comedian and influencer Druski (real name Drew Desbordes), in which he parodies everything from Republican patriots to … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}