Yesterday, in Washington Square Park, the heart of NYU and the entrance to Greenwich Village, the Bernie Sanders campaign engaged in the lost art of grass roots of the 1960's protest play. The protest play genre goes back centuries and it has always been a combination of art of the absurd, satire, political commentary and quirkiness. The play was based on a pair of jesters and a female supporter that convinced Donald Trump, a metaphor of "the establishment" to get on a red carpet, then they rolled him and captured him and in the final act they turn him upside down and exclaimed that they were "turning the establishment on its head". Historically protest art has been exactly about turning the establishment on its head when the establishment that once proclaimed to guard freedom of belief and expression has turned against it.
