1. Trump has been around long enough that he shouldn't be treated not as a freak or an accident but worthy of theory.
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4. For me, the best theorists who can explain the world we live in are the analysts of postmodernism, supremely Fredric Jameson.
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5. Here I bring to bear Baudrillard, Perry Anderson, Fredric Jameson etc. on Trumpism:https://newrepublic.com/article/143730/americas-first-postmodern-president …
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A mixture of racism and blind hatred of the system without foresight to what the new system would be.
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Don't forget: the alternative was Hillary Clinton. That explains (almost) everything.
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R base believing Obama was a foreign dictator, a right wing media that propped up the idea, and GOP leaders who winked along for the votes.
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If you enter the mindset that created Bundy ranch standoff and the Jade Helm conspiracies for example, Trump is a palliative not problem.
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As a former torontonian from the Rob Ford era, I'll say this: The city was okay. It seemed solid, impervious, even to an idiot like Ford.
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The list goes on. Charlatans and demagogues are not a new thing. Aristotle wrote about them.
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@TPM. This isnt hard. Republicans voted for Trump. They all came home. -
Republicans nominated him it the first place, so Republicans voting for Trump is a given. Others voting for him is the question
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