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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Replying to @HeerJeet
Or to refine the metaphor, Trump combines Gatsby's bottomless neediness & desire for acceptance with Tom Buchanan's racism & brutality
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Replying to @HeerJeet
he doesn't have the shirts and isn't a dandy, quite the reverse
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Replying to @JacobHeilbrunn
America is a more vulgar country now than in the 1920s.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
actually that would be a conservative take of cultural decline but is it really true?
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Replying to @JacobHeilbrunn
Not general cultural decline but the high bourgeoisie of Henry James, Wharton & Fitzgerald is now much more vulgar.
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Replying to @JacobHeilbrunn
Perry Anderson has a good discussion of this in his book The Origins of Post-Modernity.
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