Discrediting his moments of rhetorical or aesthetic flair as the work of nasty impulses ensures the Democrats will never learn from them
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump dons an apron during a campaign stop at a McDonald’s restaurant in Feasterville-Trevose, Pennsylvania. Photograph: Doug Mills/The New York Timestook up post in McDonald’s for the afternoon. In a white shirt, red tie and blue apron, the former president served French fries and handed out free meals through the drive-thru window. This was kitsch-Americana turbocharged; he looked like the subject of a Norman Rockwell painting.
We shouldn’t get bogged down in one worthy article. But it is revelatory of a wider disposition. Now that Trump has been registered in the liberal psyche as a bad person with dangerous politics , everything he does becomes filtered through this lens.It’s worse than George Orwell imagined.
Donald Trump serves fries during a visit to a McDonald's in Feasterville-Trevose, Pennsylvania. Photograph: Doug Mills/The New York Times It is tempting to accuse our opponents of being victims of false consciousness – that they are operating under an illusion, while we are clear-eyed and in lockstep with reality. Trump voters are simply shackled by his lies and right-wing media, unable to see the truth, so the Dems argue. Their logic is rather flimsy. It comes bearing the ludicrous end point that unlike Maga, the Democrat orthodoxy is entirely lit by rationality and sense and never prone to throes of emotion or social pressures.
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