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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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/ …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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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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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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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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