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More from the Chronicles of TrumpLandia: Heartbroken fans still love their hero
A new classic in a tired genre: A Trump voter's wife is deported, but he still can't give up his MAGA dreams
https://www.salon.com/2019/06/13/more-from-the-chronicles-of-trumplandia-his-heartbroken-fans-love-him-still/
The Chronicles of TrumpLandia continue. An entire subgenre of writing now exists in which intrepid reporters and other observers venture out into the hinterlands of Trump-loving America. There are interviews with "white working class" Trump voters at diners, schools or town halls, most often in the dying or declining downtowns of Rust Belt America. These scouts and amateur anthropologists for the news media speak to truck drivers, farmers, motorcyclists, veterans, coal miners and steel workers.
As the 2020 presidential election approaches there are few if any signs that these dispatches from TrumpLandia will cease. Quite the contrary: they will be delivered at a fast and furious pace.
In a recent essay at the Daily Kos, journalist and commentator Eric Boehlert (once a reporter and columnist for Salon) summarizes the genre as "a way for the allegedly liberal media to signal to conservatives that its willing to present them in a flattering light over and over and over." He continues:
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gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)wherein diehard fans will never 'root' against their team.
Pick a favorite 'loser' team from your chosen sport, and that's what the US has become.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)"I have given up everything to love this guy. I can't quit him now."
sop
(10,197 posts)When media outlets began "parachuting" their elitist reporters into exotic Trump Country to observe his supporters in their natural habitat, someone called these stories Cletus safaris."
underpants
(182,830 posts)I googled it. Yep thats a phrase now.
GusBob
(7,286 posts)Pic of a rat