Paul Krugman notes that commentary on Trump's roaring twenties party hours before 42 million Americans lost food assistance as federal workers are going without pay says the party was "tone deaf." As if Trump really had no idea what he was communicating throwing the obscene gilded age shindig as people face hunger and no salaries.
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Not so, Krugman says. Trump knew exactly what he was doing:
"The party at Mar a Lago wasn’t a case of tone deafness, living it up despite others’ suffering. It was in large part a party held to celebrate others’ suffering."
For Trump and his followers, the cruelty always has been the point. It's what they celebrate:
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"Of course he realized how it would look. He understood perfectly well that he was partying while ordinary Americans were suffering. And that understanding — combined with the belief that he can get away with it — was a big reason he enjoyed the event.
During Trump’s first term Adam Serwer wrote a justly celebrated article for The Atlantic titled 'The cruelty is the point.'”
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"Being rich is fun because you have lots of stuff. But an important part of the pleasure is not just enjoying what you have but enjoying what others do not have. Policing the purchases of the poor is part of the entitlement of the wealthy. Trump can have a gold plated bathroom because that’s the kind of thing he deserves."
~ Noah Berlatsky
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https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/republicans-want-poor-people-to-suffer
No billionaire ever went broke serving up narratives that encourages snobbery & looking down one's nose at the less fortunate.
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