He offered gold-wrapped candy bars in a stunt that showed he isn’t a worthy successor to his dad.
But in this CPAC speech, as in life, Don Jr. displays many of his dad’s most awful qualities and none of his charm — and that’s a big problem if you’re playing Willy Wonka. As the blog Film School Rejects, Gene Wilder’s performance in the iconic 1971 film is “eccentric and sinister,” hiding the character’s “true intentions behind a facade of charming cruelty.” At CPAC, Don Jr. was just sinister.
He joked that audience members searching for tickets under empty seats were “ballot harvesting,” quipping, “What are you, Democrats?” Then he suggested that Republicans should fight back by engaging in shady election practices themselves. He went on to accuse Democrats of advocating for “ten-month abortions.”
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