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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Oct 2020

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Ross Douthat

      1. It is a good passage but I'm not sure that it does the work Douthat wants it to in rebutting the idea that Trumpism is authoritarian. Worth remember what Adorno wrote about the element of buffoonery & clowning in fascism.https://twitter.com/DouthatNYT/status/1316749351226683393 …

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      Ross DouthatVerified account @DouthatNYT
      Great passage from @gcaw's latest: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/lazy-cowards-dont-start-civil-wars/616720/ … pic.twitter.com/rdIGYOeKAl
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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Oct 2020

      2. The thing with Adorno is that, contrary to what people who have a stereotypical idea of him might think, he really loved clowns. He was, as a scholar wrote, "a fan" of clowns, mimes, acrobats, circuses. Silliness was genuine utopian break. But he also saw the danger of clowns

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Oct 2020

      3. Here's Adorno on clowns & fascism. The point about how a clownish leader (the classic fascists but more recently Berlusconi, Ford, Trump) serve as a rebuke to respectability is I think acute: the message of clowning is anti-system.pic.twitter.com/IJX9IzEgfl

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Oct 2020

          4. Pushing Adorno's point, fascist clowning serves a dual purposes for different audiences: for hard-core anti-system followers its a signal the leader despises existing order as they do. For elite conservative fellow-travellers it is plausible deniability: "he's only joking"

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Oct 2020

          5. I think Douthat's account, and similar ones, suffer from an excessive focus on Trump's psychology (does this buffoon have what it takes to be Mussolini) and not enough on how that persona functions as part of larger political movement, which is more focused than he is.

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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Oct 2020

          5. Two things can both be true: Trump himself would rather be a TV star than a dictator (@DouthatNYT's point) & 2) Trumpism has energized and radicalized an anti-majoritarian political faction, with deep roots inside GOP, which is a genuine threat to democracy.

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        1. Andrew Murphy‏ @amurphous 15 Oct 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          And BoJo

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        1. Preston MacDougall‏ @ChemicalEyeGuy 15 Oct 2020
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          “A Face in the Crowd” nailed it!

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        1. Jack Letourneau‏ @jlet 15 Oct 2020
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          Love to live in an era in which the sharpest lens into national political dynamics is the world of professional wrestling.

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        2. Paul M. Cray‏ @pmcray 15 Oct 2020
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          Ford? The US president or the Toronto mayor?

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        3. Carole V. Bell‏ @BellCV 15 Oct 2020
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          The Toronto Mayor fits the mold.

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        1. Steve Negus‏ @SteveNegusMasr 15 Oct 2020
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          Most successful populists are like this, no? Right and left. It's not just fascism.

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