{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "The civic legitimation rituals are going.\n\n On an intellectual level I\u2019ve thought for years that something like this could...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/153468501978/", "html": "

kontextmaschine:

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The civic legitimation rituals are going.

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On an intellectual level I\u2019ve thought for years that something like this could happen so the first week was a warm bath of vindication and victory laps, it\u2019s actually now seeing it settle in to the patterns that\u2019s uncanny.

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Of course, you know me, it\u2019s the little civic rituals that really throw me. Saw a tweet that was just like

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Donald Trump is going to pardon a turkey

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And I was like FUCK, that\u2019s true.

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Donald Trump is going to host an Easter egg roll for children

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Donald Trump will throw out the opening pitch of Major League Baseball

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I looked for that National Enquirer article cause I thought it would be funny if their take was less wild-eyed than Vox. But \u201cMy First 100 Days\u201d \u201cIn His Own Words\u201d just refers to that bullet-pointed subhed lifted from his official plan

We Told You So was an article though, 2 pages under the cover, a timeline piece on how his candidacy progressed and all the times the Enquirer had gotten something right the consensus got wrong

I shoulda got a copy now I think of it. It was clearly written to equate Trump\u2019s superiority over the elites with the Enquirer\u2019s, with the audience invited to parallel their own - I\u2019ve wondered what primary sources might be unridiculous enough to do this election in AP US history and that\u2019d be a good one.

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