Anyone familiar with stagecraft knows the watching public’s love of easily identifiable black hats, and so uses the timeless device of setting up at least one person to be the personification of evil.  For Shakespeare it was the treacherous Iago in Othello; for Dickens it was oleaginous Uriah Heep in David Copperfield; for Pierre de Laclos, it was the heartlessly manipulative Marquise de Merteuil in Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Everyone clearly knows who the evil person is; everyone knows when to boo and hiss on cue.  For Donald Trump, the villain of his script is Ted Cruz, who is made out to be the equivalent of Omarosa Manigault of The Apprentice. Watchers of Trump’s show will recall Omarosa, who first came to public attention in 2004 after becoming a participant in the reality TV series.  Because of her vicious tactics, impenetrably hard exterior, and refusal to ever play nice, Omarosa became a woman America loved to hate.  Apparently she...(Read Full Post)