Trump's vile rants about the #LAFires remind us that the MAGA project degrades public life & denies our common humanity at every opp.
He metastasize disasters -constantly seeking ways to be in the HLs, #media favors this outrage & negative emotion +RW media ecosystem takes that revved up let’s-make-everybody-angry dynamic & applies it directly to electoral politics -makes everyone feel worse than they already felt. Musk is fanning the flames of hate around the CA.
#USPol https://newrepublic.com/article/190034/transcript-trumps-ugly-eruptions-wildfires-hint-darker-story
He metastasize disasters -constantly seeking ways to be in the HLs, #media favors this outrage & negative emotion +RW media ecosystem takes that revved up let’s-make-everybody-angry dynamic & applies it directly to electoral politics -makes everyone feel worse than they already felt. Musk is fanning the flames of hate around the CA.
#USPol https://newrepublic.com/article/190034/transcript-trumps-ugly-eruptions-wildfires-hint-darker-story
Transcript: Trump’s Ugly Eruptions Over Wildfires Hint at Darker Story
An interview with Nicole Hemmer, a historian of the right wing, about how Trump's vile, hateful tirades about the Los Angeles fires reveal the MAGA right's broader project of degrading public life.The New Republic
