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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Aug 2020

      1. One thing people really shy away from talking about -- I think because it's so disturbing -- is Trump's love of death porn: of stories of grisly murders by gangs, rioters, and terrorists.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Aug 2020

      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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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Aug 2020

      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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        1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Aug 2020

          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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        1. Joy Overstreet, MPH‏ @JoyOverstreet1 27 Aug 2020
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          Spot on.

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        1. DoctorMillennial, PhD‏ @Doctor_MPhD 27 Aug 2020
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          His brain is just soggy tatters of NY Post headlines from the 80s

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        1. José Vaxcaino‏ @rkk24 27 Aug 2020
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          I think the melodrama comes from his inability to feel emotion on his own. Everything needs to be painted in high contrast because he doesn’t know what everyday emotions feel like

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        2. Dave Halpern‏ @thedhalp 27 Aug 2020
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          This is the New York Post bit from @mulaney

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        3. Dave Halpern‏ @thedhalp 27 Aug 2020
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          https://youtu.be/VXi0d3xuuXw 

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        1. RealCivicEquality‏ @b9n10nt 27 Aug 2020
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          Connecd to 80s nypost type of reactionary salacious journalism that Trump learned from & was steeped in.

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        1. Elizabeth Robeson‏ @Eliz_Robeson 27 Aug 2020
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          Reminds me a lot of the narratives that white southerners promulgated about a world in which black people were not under their direct control. It’s the same garbage.

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        1. Omar‏ @beirutwhat 27 Aug 2020
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          It’s also the plot of Birth of a Nation.

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        1. ParsleyMostly‏ @ParsleyMostly 28 Aug 2020
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          That’s the basic premise of almost every female (and a few male) saints. And many fairy tales. But aside from that, I’d bet the house Trump has a collection of snuff films tucked away. His eldest films his animal kills.

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