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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Exactly. Which is why he holds this shitshow together. Imagine Pence or Tom Cotton trying. No
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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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It’s a mean girl kinda of funny.
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should have linked your own thread from a few days agohttps://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1316759048948076544?s=19 …
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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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This take is wrong. Calling Trump "funny" is like calling QAnon "persuasive."
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And yet.
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