2. This has been a part of Trump since the start but it's really become integrated with larger GOP message in 2016 convention: just many, many stories of people being killed. A kind of death porn.
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3. The death porn has a melodramatic structure: a "beautiful" victim, a vile murderer, weak Democrats who defend & enable, "angel" family of victim. It's designed to touch the core primordial emotions.
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4. And in the Covid moment, death porn is more important than ever. It's a way of constructing an alternative narrative to the way most people are dying right now. More thoughts here:https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-rnc-biden/ …
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“Beautiful” victims.
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They must have been from the “beautiful world wars”
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just appealing emotionally to his murderous base
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one part of his Protestant heritage he really clings to is the Fox's Book of Martyrs torture fetish
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Not shark deaths, tho. He's too afraid of sharks to wallow in it.
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Wow. Thank you for sharing. That was amazing. Subscribed. Does she have a twitter account?
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