The ethnicity is immaterial.

The faux ethnicity is the most offensive one possible in all of American history, voters get their raux off showing how open-minded they are that they can overlook it, the candidate his own self depends on just that perversity, calls his opponent a pig with lipstick, and the establishment laughs and claps their hands in glee. Sure, the ethnicity does not matter, just the role it plays. If this guy really wanted to be president, but his name was Barry Smith, would he have ever gotten national attention? This is such a big, violent offense to decency from day one, nothing that follows – nothing – can ever be a real surprise, art that is not quite crime, crime that is not quite art.