Digested week: ICE’s performance is intimidating and deadly, but also farcical | Emma Brockes
Jan 30, 2026
Seeing large men dressed in goggles and trenchcoats echoes the camp fascism of musical comediesAn aspect of ICE’s deadly performance in Minneapolis that goes hand-in-hand with its mission to intimidate is the absolutely farcical tone of the ICE aesthetic. Broadway numbers like Springtime for Hitle
r in The Producers and, more recently, Das Übermensch in Operation Mincemeat, a showstopper performed with a German techno beat and Nazi boyband – “Third Reich on the mic” – vocals, present fascism as an essentially camp enterprise and we’re reminded this week that ICE fits the mould entirely. Continue reading... ...read more read less