Counterpoint: Trump is actually a malevolent Gatsby: vulgar, mobbed up, newish money, disdained by Manhattan elite, insatiable for love.https://twitter.com/TimothyNoah1/status/835886417603620864 …
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Isn't Trump petit-bourgeois in mentality, practically nouveau riche though he isn't? Closer to Sinclair Lewis.
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influence of television has leveled cultural taste
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Perry Anderson has a good discussion of this in his book The Origins of Post-Modernity.
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of course Mencken thought it all rot at the time
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Well, there's always an element of fraud in any American pretence to aristocracy. But it was more substantial than now.
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but the high what? Blah blah blah blah blah
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