Some element of Donald Trump’s presentation is familiar to anyone who has a relative over the age of, say, 50: he thinks things were better when he was young, and he wants to cram America into a big time machine and have all of us travel back a few decades. This isn’t feasible, obviously, so he resigns himself to overhauling the current America to look like the old one, like Jimmy Stewart getting to work in Vertigo.

Trump would appreciate that reference because his pop-culture touchstones are generally also decades-old. That was made very apparent on Monday night when, for inexplicable reasons, he converted a campaign rally in Oaks, Pennsylvania, into a sort of danceless dance party.

Washington Post