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Trump Voters Want a Show Not Governance [1]
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Date: 2025-02-12
NYTs Tressie McMillan Cottom has a clear explanation of what's going on: it's the TV show that Trump voters wanted all along. They don't want governance, they want a show--entertainment. Hence the constant headline grabbing chaos. Their show is on....
Chaos wants to shut down thinking and feeling by trapping us in the emotional state of its choosing. Name-calling, rudeness, childishness and pettiness put those of us who do not want to be the Twitch audience to Trump and Musk’s content on the defensive. Looking away would preserve our sanity. But content’s secret politics is that it wants people to look away while it works on the people who don’t. So what do we do about it?
You acknowledge that the chaos is smoke, but the heist is the fire. Don’t look away from the smoke. Look through it for what is being taken, redefined and reallocated. Stop pointing out the hypocrisy. The other side does not care. Its content makes the people there feel powerful but action is the only real power.
The left wing of the Democratic Party finally convinced the once-resistant Chuck Schumer that opposition is action. It is the best tool that a minority party has.More important, it expands our field of play beyond the area that Trump and Musk now control. If you are not inciting yourself or others to act, your political rhetoric will not eclipse Trump’s chaos.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/opinion/musk-trump-government-takeover.html
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