2. The Rummy-As-Sex-Symbol moment, a meme that flourished not just in the right-wing media but also the mainstream press from 2001-2004, has been dropped down the memory hole, a collective embarrassment no one wants to talk about. What was going on?
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3. Partly, it's a matter of how in a time of crisis the media (again, extending beyond the right) likes to find a Churchillian hero who embodies collective toughness, competence, resilience. We saw this recently in cults of Fauci & Cuomo (or earlier of Mueller).
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4. But Susan Faludi, in her excellent book The Terror Dream (in someways a sequel to her more famous Backlash & equally important) documented how 9/11 led to a resurgence of gender norming. Her book didn't get the attention it deserved at the time but it's persuasive.
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5. Some thoughts on the strange moment when there was mass thirst for Donald Rumsfeld.https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/the-forgotten-history-of-rumsfeld?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …
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You have a really strong interest in this subject lmao
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Grotesque propaganda campaign
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It’s 8:30 in the morning. Are you trying to make me
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Genocide as an aphrodisiac … then they try to forget about it on the morning after
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hey, Dante made burning in hell for all eternity seem kinda sexy though, right?
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