Trumpian ordeal of incivility

With this framework in place, we can finally understand the Trumpian ordeal of incivility. Trump is, as Collins observes, fundamentally pre-modern. While ethnically Scottish and German, Trump's personality was forged in the Ellis Island crucible of New York real estate where parasitic pariah capitalism is the norm. Trump is lecherous for eastern European women, regularly bilks contractors and consumers, has a predilection for the gaudy and kitsch, eats like a prole, constantly makes a scene among the well-bred and people of good taste, and cynically manipulates the legal system with a mob affiliated legal team. In other words, he feels at home and secure among incivil company where the stifling affective censorship of civil society is absent.

- Trump And The Return Of Pre-Modern Incivility by Hoyt Thorpe

Hoyt Thorpe - ясное дело псевдоним. про Трампа очень смешно. и абсолютно точно. перед этим в эссе несколько абзацев содержат отличное резюме Испытания вежливостью Каддихи

Commentators like Williamson, O'Connor, and Keillor only seem capable of perceiving Trump's incivility from the perspective of the establishment, failing to fully to grasp how it is experienced by Trump supporters. For his part, Trump clearly understands, even if only intuitively, the democratic emotional energy that can be summoned by engaging in spite rituals against elite decorum.

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Indeed, in his National Review article, Jonah Goldberg astutely observed that Trump regularly uses the rhetorical technique of apophasis - raising a forbidden topic but ironically condemning it - to great effect among his supporters. Goldberg points to the following Trump tweet as an example:

"I refuse to call Megyn Kelly a bimbo, because that would not be politically correct. Instead I will only call her a lightweight reporter!"

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Hatch and Kennedy had no problem respecting each other and breaking bread because they became social equals on Capitol Hill, calling to mind Aristotle's old formulation that equality always only means equality for equals and inequality for non-equals.

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It's impossible, for instance, to argue with a straight face that mocking vulgar unemployed Appalachians as mediocre whites is "punching up" and therefore an acceptable form of incivility, while mocking vulgar Mexican or Muslim immigrants is not.

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Like homosexuality, feminism, and black nationalism, white nationalism is an ideology that bundles substantiated and unsubstantiated grievances with a constructed group identity.

блистательное эссе, его бы перевести, но уж очень большая работа.