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Leonard Grossman's avatar

Wow. Just wow! Thank you for introducing us to Tara Burton. I had promised myself not to follow any more Substacks. But she is thought provoking and powerful.

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Tom Barson's avatar

Few could resist the magical writing here, but I think the essay is undermined a bit by that hobgoblin of cultural criticism: the all-encompassing, distinction-erasing, cultural "we" that implies anyone who is not sensible to the described dynamic is -- what? -- not with it, irrelevant, uncool, a social outsider?

Just for the record some of us saw the photo, smiled at how it confirmed our take that Trump is irretrievably his own hero, and just moved on.

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