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Trump’s Kitschy Nostalgia Is the Point

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63% Informative

Julian Zelizer : Trumpism has always been a disorienting fusion of buffoonery and menace: too dangerous to be purely comic, not serious enough to live up to our fears.

Zelizer says he's always smirking, acting coy, camp, or just plain bizarre.

He asks: Can a man this ridiculous really pose an existential threat to democracy?.

David Gergen : Trump rallies are evocative empty calories, but harmless.

He says they evoke nostalgia for the past, but it’s an artificial, mutable past, provoking the most basic, primal questions: What is it that you miss? When did you have it? Wouldn’t you like to get it back? Gergen says it's a mistake to assume schmaltz and menace can't go hand hand.

VR Score

60

Informative language

53

Neutral language

48

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

36

Offensive language

offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

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not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

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