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    1. 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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      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. Hermann Neutics‏ @CharlieHuisken 18 Oct 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @emilynussbaum

          Recommended: *Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump* by Jennifer Mercieca @jenmercieca , but then I've always been a fan of The Three Stooges.https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781623499068/demagogue-for-president/ …

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        1. Greta Byrum‏ @gretabyrum 18 Oct 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @emilynussbaum

          Bannon and dark enlightenment + Milo pals also mobilized sardonic humor to build the gross, clammy underbelly of misogynistic tr*mp support (g*merg*te and 4ch*n)

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        1. Jean-Claude Killey‏ @jckilley 18 Oct 2020
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        2. Paul R‏ @PaulRinSF 18 Oct 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @emilynussbaum

          Take a look at Sartre’s Anti-Semite And Jew (1945). There’s a passage where he discusses the phenomenon of ‘play’ in anti-Semitic discourse. A moral person is wedded to the good faith of linguistic reference, but annihilating that wedding is vital for the fascist. 1/2

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        3. Paul R‏ @PaulRinSF 18 Oct 2020
          Replying to @PaulRinSF @HeerJeet @emilynussbaum

          The morally sensate have to believe in meaning; humor allows the fascist to shred the conventions of communication. It’s the opposite of Habermas’s ‘ideal speech situation’. 2/2

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