"The
cruelty of the Trump administration’s policies, and the ritual
rhetorical flaying of his targets before his supporters, are intimately
connected. As Lili Loofbourow wrote of the Kavanaugh incident in Slate,
adolescent male cruelty toward women is a bonding mechanism, a vehicle
for intimacy through contempt. The white men in the lynching photos are
smiling not merely because of what they have done, but because they have
done it together.
"Taking joy in that suffering is more human than most would like to admit. Somewhere on the wide spectrum between adolescent teasing and the smiling white men in the lynching photographs are the Trump supporters whose community is built by rejoicing in the anguish of those they see as unlike them, who have found in their shared cruelty an answer to the loneliness and atomization of modern life."
"Taking joy in that suffering is more human than most would like to admit. Somewhere on the wide spectrum between adolescent teasing and the smiling white men in the lynching photographs are the Trump supporters whose community is built by rejoicing in the anguish of those they see as unlike them, who have found in their shared cruelty an answer to the loneliness and atomization of modern life."
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