David Roth im Defector:

“…a great percentage of the degenerate gentry that is Trump’s truest and most durable base is extremely like this: Dumb old bullies all grandiose and soft from golf and infidelity; illiterate real-estate types with detailed opinions on The Differences Between The Races; the luridly unemployable adult children of car-dealership guys; anhedonic beneficiaries of a good investment or two who have, through sheer restless indolence and various dull biases, backed into some truly berserk and totally bespoke authoritarian worldviews. Aging phone addicts who think the country “needs a pharaoh.” Ruddy tax evaders who fear cities and are insecure about their boats. None of these people really do things especially well, and all of them are visibly getting worse, but they are all far enough from experiencing any kind of consequences that they can’t really imagine failing at anything they try.”

aus: Promises Made, Promises Kept: The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Absolutely Looks Like Shit Now (via)

• The Pro-Trump Mob Was Doing It For The Gram | Buzzfeed News
• Was uns die Bilder von der Erstürmung des Kapitols erzählen | BR24
• We Worked Together on the Internet. Last Week, He Stormed the Capitol. | New york Times
• The Roleplaying Coup | City Journal
• Worst Revolution Ever | The Atlantic

Da liegt ja auch sicher viel Wahres drin – Insurrection als Selfie Opportunity, vor lauter Postings das Handeln vergessen, etc. Nachdem viele Social-Media-Plattformen Trump (und einigen seiner Fans) nun den Stecker gezogen haben, möchte ich aber noch auf Folgendes hinweisen:

• Kicking Trump off social media won’t save democracy, say antitrust experts | Salon

Nachtrag 1901-2021 // Vox hat eine Liste von Unternehmen, die sich zu den Capitol riots geäußert haben. Viele davon waren vor Kurzem noch ziemlich dicke mit dem Präsidenten und einigen Republikanern. ]]> https://drikkes.com/?p=12928 https://drikkes.com/?p=12928#comments drikkes]]> Mon, 25 Jun 2018 12:34:16 +0000 http://drikkes.com/?p=12928 Bester Absatz aus: Interrogating Melania Trump’s Statement Jacket and Its Fast-Fashion Fascism

It was, as they say in high-school dress codes, inappropriate. Pressed for comment, the First Lady’s office declared, “There was no hidden message”—quite sensibly so, for, as the world immediately observed, its message was readily legible. But the statement stretched too far in expressing a hope that “the media isn’t going to choose to focus on her wardrobe.” The former Melania Knauss began a career in commercial modeling at the age of sixteen. Wearing clothes is her foremost métier, and the clothes she was wearing, in the context of her husband’s inhumane treatment of immigrants, and everyone else, constituted the most significant conjunction of clothing and incipient fascism since Hugo Boss débuted his collection for fall/winter 1938, unless you count the snapback MAGA cap.

Ich mag ja den Sprachstil, den sie beim New Yorker selbst bei Modethemen pflegen. Und ich muß wohl “Metropolitan Life” von Fran Lebowitz lesen. ]]> https://drikkes.com/?feed=rss2&p=12928 5 https://drikkes.com/?p=12503 https://drikkes.com/?p=12503#comments drikkes]]> Wed, 27 Dec 2017 17:35:52 +0000 http://drikkes.com/?p=12503 Auch mal dankbar dafür sein, jeden, der »tax cuts for the rich« fordert oder verspricht, als »Möchtegern-Trump« beschimpfen zu können. (Wobei »reich« natürlich jeder ist, der mehr verdient als ich.)

Wenn Trump souverän wäre: »Sogar die Linken machen einen besseren Job, seit sie mich hassen können.«

I think we tend to use the terms “left” and “right” in a sloppy fashion, because it’s the familiar way that we classify parties in the post-war era in Europe where you see the difference, for example, between social democrats and communists versus conservatives and liberals.
What we’ve got now is a new cultural cleavage which overlays that, and populists therefore can be left-wing or right-wing or in the middle. Basically they’re very vague on economics, but it’s the cultural values which are the critical aspects which differ for them.

Why Trump’s populist appeal is about culture, not the economy – Vox ]]> https://drikkes.com/?feed=rss2&p=11820 5