orphious wrote:
Not gee'd up at all. Just pointing out your growing obsession. I find it interesting that as time goes by even the most level headed anti-Trump posters eventually turn to posting stupid shit about him that at the end of the day simply does not matter.
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David Brooks has an op-ed addressing what he sees in a similar vein. Discusses "lowbrowism" and Fox's Hannity etal, then what he sees happening on the left:
"We anti-Trumpers have our lowbrowism, too, mostly on late-night TV. But anti-Trump lowbrowism burst into full bloom with the Wolff book.
Wolff doesn’t pretend to adhere to normal journalistic standards. He happily admits that he’s just tossing out rumors that are too good to check. As Charlie Warzel wrote on BuzzFeed, “For Wolff’s book, the truth seems almost a secondary concern to what really matters: engagement.”
The ultimate test of the lowbrow is not whether it challenges you, teaches you or captures the contours of reality; it’s whether you feel an urge to share it on social media.
In every war, nations come to resemble their enemies, so I suppose it’s normal that the anti-Trump movement would come to resemble the pro-Trump movement. But it’s not good. I’ve noticed a lot of young people look at the monotonous daily hysteria of we anti-Trumpers and they find it silly."
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/08/opinion/anti-trump-opposition.html?_r=0