November 19, 2024

THE TRUMP DANCE AND THE RETURN OF A CULTURAL ICON:

There are logical reasons why someone might not agree with Trump politically but the arguments against Trump have been mostly moral arguments casting him as an inhuman character who is beyond redemption. It’s why they say “He’s different”: They mean he’s not to be humanized.

Hitler is a perfect example of a person we culturally feel comfortable dehumanizing, which is why it’s the go-to comparison for the people who hate him the most. It’s a manipulative hypnotizing tactic to convince people to see him as being anything other than human.

We’re not supposed to be empathetic to monsters and we don’t give the same level of treatment to demonic characters as we do other people. There is no good faith to be had with the people who are so terrible that we reserve the right to remove their human card.

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The resounding political win by Trump has caused the public to reevaluate and appreciate him in a non-political fashion. The dance isn’t an endorsement; it’s just a fun dance that’s easy to do. The problem is that words like fun aren’t meant to correlate with inhuman monsters.

We’re not supposed to remember his long-run television show “The Apprentice” and we’re definitely supposed to forget how he was as a fawned-over capitalist figure by nearly every black rapper or else risk endangering the success rate of the “Trump is a racist” narrative.

For nearly a decade, Americans were heavily implored to neglect their fond memories of his cultural impact by disremembering how Donald Trump made a cameo in “Home Alone 2”, was beloved by Oprah Winfrey, and was a frequent favorite guest on “The View”.

You don’t have to like his politics and I would encourage people to challenge his abilities as the president-elect. However, there is nothing wrong with recognizing the duality of Donald Trump.

He’s a political wrecking ball and a cultural icon; No monster to be found.

It’s true that the left wanted us to forget how much Trump was part of the pop culture landscape, since the 1980s. But we shouldn’t ever let them forget their red-lining the Godwin meter since 2015, and then over the past two weeks simply shrugging their shoulders and attempting to pretend to (at least on the surface) go back to business as usual:

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll