{"id":11419,"date":"2019-11-26T11:25:57","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T16:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11419"},"modified":"2019-11-26T11:25:57","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T16:25:57","slug":"skinheads-in-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11419","title":{"rendered":"Skinheads-in-training"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve idly wondered from time-to-time<\/a> if Trumpism bespeaks the birth of an enduring and anti-social subculture in American life, something akin to contemporary, swastika-adorned skinheads.<\/p>\n

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Trumpism has all the elements of a cult; it is a movement centered on blind obedience of, and loyalty to, a single, charismatic individual who has all the answers, who is going to restore greatness and dignity even as he leads to ruin.<\/p>\n

It all reminds me that the swastika remains a potent and omnipresent reminder of the evil of Adolf Hitler; it is all but a commonplace to learn of it being used to deface headstones in Jewish cemeteries.<\/p>\n

So, occasionally, I wonder: Are we at the birth of another dangerous, anti-social, long-lived subculture? Will red baseball caps become \u2026 code, an ornamental shibboleth that says, \u201cI belong\u201d?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If not, it won’t be for lack of trying. It turns out that there are now children’s books — REPEAT, children’s books — celebrating … The Donald.<\/p>\n

No kidding: You can now tuck-in li’l Johnny or Janey after reading them the thrilling tales Donald Builds the Wall<\/a><\/i>, Donald Drains the Swamp<\/a><\/i>, or Donald the Beaver Builds a Big Beautiful Wall!<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

Granted, Trump’s hardcore supporters aren’t, generally, well-educated or the sort to have more than a couple-dozen books in their entire home, so reading a bedtime story to the kiddies is probably not a Big Deal Activity in most of those homes. But look at an enthusiastic review of Donald Drains the Swamp<\/i>:<\/p>\n

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This book simplifies and distills the truth of what has been happening behind the scenes that MSM have not covered truthfully the last 2 years with their 24\/7 fake news assault. (Fake News = biased reporting slanted to portray a subject in the worst possible light) The narrative on Donald has been fake news 24\/7 while obfuscating the previous admins utterly corrupt weaponization of the Federal Government against it’s (deplorable) citizens and candidates for office.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There are<\/i> going to be kids who grow-up mainlining this stuff, kids who grow-up thinking the media are enemies of the people who peddle fake news, and they are going to be a disruptive and destructive presence in our national life for a long, long, time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve idly wondered from time-to-time if Trumpism bespeaks the birth of an enduring and anti-social subculture in American life, something akin to contemporary, swastika-adorned skinheads. Trumpism has all the elements of a cult; it is a movement centered on blind … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11419"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11419"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11424,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11419\/revisions\/11424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}