You would probably rather have your eyes gouged out than read yet another thinkpiece about this shit, but I love George Saunders' writing SO MUCH, and his piece about Trump is moving and uncomfortable and searing, so I'm going to risk recommending it. Apropos your question, he writes:
A bully shows up, is hateful, says things so crude we liberals are taken aback. We respond moderately. We keep waiting for his supporters, helped along by how compassionately and measuredly we are responding, to be persuaded. For the bully, this is perfect. Every fresh outrage pulls the camera back to him, and meanwhile those of us moderately decrying his immoderation are a little boring and tepid, and he keeps getting out ahead of us. He has Trumpmunity: his notions are so low and have been so many times decried, and yet they keep arriving, in new and escalating varieties, and the liberal imagination wilts.
I love Tricia Lockwood's piece too, but I would walk to Yellowknife barefoot to read just about anything she writes.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2016-07-06 01:03 am (UTC)I love Tricia Lockwood's piece too, but I would walk to Yellowknife barefoot to read just about anything she writes.