Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Trump's words 'degrade'

The piece below is an extract from an article The New Yorker yesterday by Adam Gopnik.

It's an interesting read.

"Trump’s words don’t debate or even discredit. They degrade and delegitimize.

"They’re insults so crude that it’s difficult to believe that anyone could find them persuasive, but that are clearly intended to appeal to a part of what is called the “base”—an unintentional, if somewhat Shakespearean, pun. 

"One miserable truth of humanity is that cruel impulses are easy to awaken in large numbers of people, if they’re told by those in power that those impulses are now acceptable, and the form that such permission takes is invariably a reawakening of the language of demonology."

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