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there's an argument to be made that the subtext of Mamdani's approach (and AOC's, Bernie's etc) when appealing beyond natural allies is "let this economic vision of affordability distract you from your hate and bigotry"

Over time Trump's far right has built up social and political structures that grant greater permission to indulge in more open and elaborate forms of cruelty, which is how MAGA evolved from shouting "build the wall" at kindergarteners to building concentration camps for those same kindergarteners.

And that's what Trump offers: a hallucinatory political phantasmagoria where you are always the rightfully-aggrieved victim, and also always the triumphant bully, watching one repulsive enemy after another get fed into the torture machine. The pleasure of indignation and domination all at once

*creepiest white mask