Trump. It didn’t really blow up until Trump. It allowed libs to safely indulge in conservative idolatry of the founders because hip PoC rappers told them it was actually dope. They couldn’t safely indulge those feelings because Trump made them feel icky about it. So Manuel Miranada Cosgrove sold himself as the guy who would express it for them in a safe cultural padded room where they could be both nationalistic and colonial but also not feel guilty.
The tickets were going for 10k a pop before Trump. The fued with Trump kept it going long after perhaps it should have died.
Black people get work LARPing as slaveowners and white people get to feel better about championing slaveowners. A latin guy gets some pop and a bunch of people make money. It’s the liberal wet dream of what they believe America should be.
The tickets were going for 10k a pop before Trump
Wait… WHAT? Broadway delenda est.
Not for every performance, mind you, just that the frenzy around Hamilton had nothing to do with Trump-- it was only exacerbated by him as all things were in those times.
https://money.cnn.com/2016/06/03/media/hamilton-tickets-lin-manuel-miranda/
