Go West, Weird Man. The oddballs of the MAGA movement have nothing on Silicon Valley transhumanists.
By Émile P. Torres,
Truthdig
| 08. 08. 2024
Image by Julien Tromeur from Unsplash
The latest Democratic line of attack targeting Trump, his running mate JD Vance and the MAGA movement is to call them “weird.” Not the good “weird,” in the mold of David Bowie or Albert Einstein, but bad weird, in a way most Americans find profoundly creepy. Trump saying that he would be dating Ivanka if she weren’t his daughter, or Vance talking about a conspiracy of “childless cat ladies” — that kind of weird. Social media is overflowing with examples of MAGA followers and officials doing things like donning “Real Men Wear Diapers” shirts and amorously rubbing the nether regions of a Trump cutout.
Unlike Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” comment in 2016 — which backfired spectacularly — this effort to “bully the bullies” appears to be sticking, because the charge rings true, as noted by “The Daily Show’s” Ronny Chieng: “You can’t say, ‘Guys, guys, I’m not weird!’ Because that sounds weird.”
But the modern GOP does not have a monopoly on weird in American life. In Silicon Valley, a bizarre...
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