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Travis's avatar

Look at it more from a "how funny would it be if we selected a radical decadent elite to fuck over all the other decadent elite people we hate?" perspective and it will start to make sense. Imagine if we could get corrupt Russian oligarchs to overthrow Putin, wouldn't we want that? Wouldn't it be MORE poetic if anything from our perspective? The same could be said about choosing a decadent elite to overthrow all the other decadent managerial elites. That's who Trump is for them. Kinda poetic when you think about it.

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That seems a bit meta for too much of that crowd. It seems more probable to me that they mistake the image for the reality, based upon his fame as a "tough" business "leader" and his apparent fearlessness in running his mouth so long as he has lawyers and hirelings and butt-kissers to do his heavy lifting.

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I think it's both personally. He is the ultimate base male icon for what he has attained over the course of his life. But he's also like shoving a mirror into the faces of the "managerial elite" and saying "look at what the system you produced created, now you get to live with it." There really is more of an up/down economic component to populism as I understand it compared to the left/right culture war shit. Where the up/down and left/right intertwine is where it gets the most interesting. Trump is a great example of that. He was both the middle finger to elitism AND the middle finger to the "woke" multi-cultural left. He was capable of both "owning the libs" AND "owning the managerial elite". For Trumpers, the managerial elites are the ones who are in charge and the post-college left are their subservient scribe class minions. They see the post-college "woke" left as the future inheritors of the positions that the managerial elite currently hold. They see these two groups as working hand-in-glove to fuck the working class both economically and culturally. At least, that's been my take on how Trumpers see things culturally and economically going in this country.

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R Mercer's avatar

I never really got that because Trump is kind of the epitome of the managerial elite. I mean, I understand the scam he is running (intentionally or not).. O am just kind of surprised at how many people buy it.

But, given what I know and my experience... I guess I am not really surprised, I just kind of want to be.

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