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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Oct 2020

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Owen Ellickson

    This is right and, as Owen notes downthread, one of the few people that understood Trump's comedic appeal and how it relates to his politics was @emilynussbaum in a great New Yorker piece.https://twitter.com/onlxn/status/1317629265664339968 …

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    Owen EllicksonVerified account @onlxn
    the biggest thing progressives have misunderstood about the Trump years, it's this: Trump actually is funny. phrasing, rhythm, intonation... this is a skilled performer who's working a crowd well. it may not be your style, but he's funny. your Hawleys and Cottons can't do this https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1317254587427016704 …
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      1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Oct 2020

        Here's the @emilynussbaum piece. There's probably a whole book to be written about funny fascism -- the role a certain type of sardonic humor plays in stoking the far-right. Wyndham Lewis and Celine are prime examples.https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/23/how-jokes-won-the-election …

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      1. FPMD‏ @_FPMD_ 18 Oct 2020
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        Exactly. Which is why he holds this shitshow together. Imagine Pence or Tom Cotton trying. No

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      1. JasonX‏ @JasonX17428071 18 Oct 2020
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        Who "misunderstood" that the guy had a successful REALITY TV SHOW? And what's that got to do with the fact that he was rejected by a majority of voters b/c they understood TV ratings does not = competent governance?

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      1. PathsofDax‏ @PathsofDax 18 Oct 2020
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        It’s a mean girl kinda of funny.

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      1. Masketeer‏ @2BorNutB 18 Oct 2020
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        Masketeer Retweeted Jeet Heer

        should have linked your own thread from a few days agohttps://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1316759048948076544?s=19 …

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        Jeet HeerVerified account @HeerJeet
        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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      1. Mark Sheridan‏ @Mark_Sheridan 18 Oct 2020
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        David Denby also had some great pieces early on where he analyzed Trump as a stand up comichttps://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/plot-america-donald-trumps-rhetoric …

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      2. Dale Grauman‏ @DaleGrauman 18 Oct 2020
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        This take is wrong. Calling Trump "funny" is like calling QAnon "persuasive."

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      3. Terrapin‏ @terrapinion 18 Oct 2020
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        And yet.

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