Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.
South Park has made a very pointed effort to avoid all matters Donald Trump this season, both because the 2016 election was such a huge element in Season 20 and because it’s tough to create satire that holds a candle to reality these days. But with today being the one-year anniversary of Trump’s election, clearly Trey Parker and Matt Stone felt this would be a good time to return to old habits and put Trump surrogate Mr. Garrison back in the spotlight. It’s a shame, then, that the Garrison scenes were the weakest part of “Doubling Down.”
As entertaining as Garrison’s presidential phase has been, there’s a limit to how much he can really work as a stand-in for Trump. This episode played into the idealized view of Trump so many of his hardcore supporters maintain against all evidence to the contrary - that he’s a tough-talking, fearless leader of men who knows how to wrap politicians around his finger and manipulate his way out of any controversy. Look, I try not to bring my own political opinions into these reviews any more than necessary, but that’s a very generous interpretation of things. Lately, it’s become harder to argue against the idea that Parker and Stone are being unusually soft on Trump compared to past Presidents.
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