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But *how* he did this, the peddling of populist myths that championed “the little guy” against an entrenched “establishment,” are important. They tell us something about the cultural logic employed by an emboldened right-wing, and how that logic can be transmitted effectively through the likes of graphics, music, words and media. Trump may not be a fascist – but he represents something not dissimilar, albeit on weaker ideological ground. (As Enzo Traverso argues <http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3026-the-lucidity-of-the-defeated-enzo-traverso-on-left-melancholy>: “‘Trump is as much a fascist as Occupy Wall Street or Nuit Debout are communist!’ There is no possible genealogy between these movements.”) But like the false socialism of the last century’s fascists, Trump’s crude reality-television spectacle represented a faux “aesthetic leveling,” a figurative raising up of masses of people alongside those who, in their minds, have bilked them. A (virgin) Molotov cocktail tossed in the smug faces of the political center. http://www.redwedgemagazine.com/online-issue/out-of-the-castles _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com