1. Lots of people are reading the literature of totalitarianism (Arendt, Orwell) but should also be reading the literature of post-modernism
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2. Big difference between Trump (also Berlusconi, Ford etc.) & mid-20th century autocrats is passage from modernism to post-modernism
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3. Trump is an authoritarian during a post-modern moment, where politics is played out on TV & computer screen, not the street.
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4. Trump, a malevolent Chancy Gardner, resonates as authentic to Fox audience because he really does watch network & believes what it says
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5. The populist "doesn't give the people what they want, he wants what they want." (Chesterton). Trump watches TV his supporters watch.
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6. Good reading suggestions on TL to this tweet but let me add Debord on Society of the Spectacle, Baudrillard on simulacra, & Jameson
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Yes, throughout I've thought of Trump as the first truly "spectacular" President, beginning w reality show construct as candidate.
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Yep, Reagan and Palin were precursors but he's taken it to a whole new level.
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Yes that's the downward trajectory & separately Palin also established dangerous precedent on right for politics as brand-building
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