Theater and cinema differ from musical concerts in one key way: actors rarely engage the audience directly, unlike concerts where this is common practice for musicians. To do so is to “break the fourth wall.” The first three walls are backstage, stage left, and stage right. The front of the stage, “the fourth wall,” is the distance between the performers and the audience.

The reason for this rule is elementary: engaging the audience impairs its ability to suspend disbelief. Suspending disbelief is essential for viewers of film and plays. Should a member of the cast or the audience break the fourth wall, every viewer in the audience is at risk of remembering the performance is not real; and their emotional investment in the story will suffer or be lost altogether.

Regrettably, the political tumult resulting from our media saturated culture has blurred the line between entertainment and politics so much that it is virtually sandblasted out of existence. As such, many of the lessons of entertainment and politics are increasingly interchangeable.

Given that reality and the Democrats’ cozy relationship with Hollywood, it is fair to note that the Harris-Walz cosplay campaign is engaged in a theater of the absurd. A Barack Obama production, the fictional narrative set forth in the Harris-Walz cosplay campaign is that Vice President Kamala Harris is a joyous “agent of change,” who opposes the “politics of the past.” Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, are here to solve the myriad problems besetting our country.

If successful, Harris will upgrade her role to that of president. For his part, Walz is playing the garrulous neighbo who nods passively as he cleans up after his dog. If successful, Walz will doubtless garner a starring role in a reboot of How to Succeed in Business in Communist China without Even Trying.

Of course, any rational observer will immediately recognize, despite the fourth wall, that there is little joy in the Mudville of middle America—nor in much of our country. Rational observers will also note that the Biden-Harris administration has caused the current crop of maladies making the lives of Americans that much more difficult, if not downright miserable. Sky-high inflation; rising unemployment; decimated workers, families, friends, and loved ones; over 10 million illegal immigrants in recent years, including terrorists and gang members; a perilously porous border; a war without an off-ramp in the Ukraine that could trigger a nuclear response by the revanchist Putin regime as NATO weapons are being used to kill Russian troops in Russia; Iran and its proxies, like Hamas, committing terrorist atrocities and war crimes against our staunch ally Israel; rising anti-Semitism at home from new and un-American arrivals—the litany of executive branch misfeasance and incompetence continues day after excruciating day.

It is an executive branch in which Kamala Harris stars as vice president; and as a veep to whom various and sundry assignments have been tasked by President Biden. In addition, she has cast over 30 tie-breaking votes in the Senate in efforts to impose the will of this abysmal maladministration upon the American people.

While Harris rails against the politics of the past and points toward the future, she and Walz cannot escape the fact that they represent the politics of the present. All attempts to evade her complicity in the disastrous policies of the present Biden-Harris administration are futile and laughable. The Harris-Walz Beltway production is a well-scripted and well-disciplined farce. Every actor knows his lines and delivers them with well-feigned sincerity. Under no circumstances will any of them, candidate or operative, break the fourth wall by admitting the truth that Harris is currently the vice president of the United States at a time when there is grave concern that our current and unpopular president is not competent to do fulfill his constitutional duties. Nor is there any indication she means to do anything about the grave threat of our absent executive—well, at least not until she is elected president.

Yet, even with the fawning media promoting them and denigrating the opposition in a manner that would make Pravda blush, how much of our pesky reality can the theatrical production that is the Harris-Walz campaign shove down the memory hole in pursuit of retaining and expanding their executive power?

Well, that will depend upon the audience—the American people.

Sure, the Trump campaign can do a better job of hammering at the fourth wall to get voters to realize the Harris-Walz campaign is a “reimagined” retread of the Biden-Harris administration. Still, just as happened with the 1974 Oscar ceremony streaker, the Trump campaign can only inject itself into the illusory realm manufactured by the Democrats, their media cohorts, and well-heeled elitist special interests to scream that the emperor has no clothes.

It is up to the audience to shake itself out of the illusion that the Democrats are well-attired. Or, at least, to have the self-discipline to repeat “Harris is politics of the present. Do we want more of it?”

For many in the electorate, such as progressives and other leftists, nothing the Trump campaign says will shake their willful suspension of disbelief that Vice President Harris is a joyous, unifying, blameless agent of change possessing all the solutions to America and the world’s ills. “Our Democracy™” is a helluva drug.

For those voters capable of recognizing we are supposed to live in a constitutional republic with enumerated and limited powers, there is hope that a crack in the fourth wall will afford them a crystalline view of the Harris-Walz theater of the absurd. In consequence, this audience will refuse to be duped into believing Harris would constitute a “change,” let alone a solution to the problems she has helped create and exacerbate. And, despite the Democrats’ spending well over a billion dollars in hard, soft, and dark money to craft this fourth wall, an objective electorate will refuse to suspend their disbelief; measure their pursuit of happiness based upon their lived experiences of the respective Trump-Pence and Biden-Harris administrations; and vote accordingly.

While we live in the country that gave the world Hollywood and we rightfully enjoy our entertainments, overall we like to view ourselves as a  practical people. We are a people dedicated to protecting and promoting our own and every citizen’s liberty, prosperity, and security. In a dangerous age, with the looming clouds of recession and war on the horizon, we don’t have the luxury of willfully suspending our disbelief. Rather we should embrace reality, however challenging, and transcend the problems besetting us.

Best get your tickets to the Harris-Walz cosplay campaign’s theater of the absurd. Their show closes in November.