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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Sep 2020

    Jeet Heer Retweeted John Ganz

    I think this is right about Trump's class identity. Part of his success is parleying that rich slob's anger at bad service into a wider anger of petty bourgeois at being disrespected.https://twitter.com/lionel_trolling/status/1311329049130790913 …

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    John Ganz @lionel_trolling
    growing up in the upper middle class in manhattan i can tell you trump is a very typical rich slob you overhear all the time in restaurants
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      1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Sep 2020

        The thing about the provincial petty bourgeois is they are like god-kings in their own realm (their business, their community) but they also know there are people out there in wider world who don't respect them. Hence their aggrieved privilege & lordly self-pity: Trumpism.

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      2. Gerald Weaver knows #PrisonTrumpWillBeWayFunnier‏ @Gerald_Weaver_ 30 Sep 2020
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        "Trump base see in their leader their adolescent selves, being told they have not measured up. Now the authority is a coastal elite, telling them they might be racist. If you listen to Trump in a certain way, you hear adolescent backtalk." They love it.https://medium.com/@gerald.weaver.author/marcel-proust-love-and-trump-519c73749bb9 …

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      2. O‏ @Last1OfTheBest 30 Sep 2020
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        "wider anger of petty bourgeois at being disrespected" seems like an apt description of the other side as well, insomuch as a lot of the left is comprised of underemployed college grads.

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      1. FPMD‏ @_FPMD_ 30 Sep 2020
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        This is a good take....parleying his anger from his class (born rich) to another (born white and middle class) is a good trick.......genius in fact.....his one actual successful idea ....it was just intuition...but he immediately found his audience by late 2015 that was that...

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      2. Nicholas Adam Strahl‏ @NAStrahl 30 Sep 2020
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        Still doesn't change the fact though that that many people voted for and still support Trump because the last President was black. 🙄

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      2. Greg Sargent‏Verified account @ThePlumLineGS 30 Sep 2020
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        @lionel_trolling as someone whose grandparents lived near Trump's childhood home, I can tell you he grew up in an elite enclave, but a misunderstood Queens one, filled with judges and party bigwigs & politically connected lawyers. It's a grubby, climby kind of semi-elite status

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      3. hilde45‏ @hilde45 30 Sep 2020
        Replying to @ThePlumLineGS @HeerJeet @lionel_trolling

        Yes -- the "semi-elite" thing is at a deep level, here.

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