He was an awful, horrible candidate in every respect but the people flocking to his side thought a lot of the ways he was horrible were "based" and made up for the other ways he was horrible ("He's abusive to women but he's also abusive to Establishment Dems!")
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Like if he were exactly the same person but actually *better at politics* in the traditional sense - if he "came off as a hypocrite" because he was actually nice in public - he'd have no allies at all
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Just being consistently mindlessly a prick to everyone at all times was a *successful media strategy* for this kid Because there's this whole contingent of columnists and podcasters who use the same strategy themselves, defining fakeness and hypocrisy as the worst thing
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It's very, very, very Trumpian It's exactly what people mean when they try to juggle this paradox of how Trump is "the most honest man in Washington" when he lies to their faces constantly (because he lies badly and perfunctorily)
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performatively hating identity politics is always an extremely strong sign that you are personally very committed to a simplistic identity politics
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White Internet troll
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This is an interesting idea, but I don't think it's backed up by their own words. The concepts that his defenders love to mention are important, but their foregrounding of these was unpersuasive. A knee-jerk response to their "usual twitter enemies" rightfully raising questions.
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The only bigger identity movement around now is M A G A
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