The Reaction Economy
The LRB Podcast
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Is There a Difference Between Trump Rallyes and TV Wrestling?
The idea that Trump rallies have something in common with American wrestling tournaments, events. There's a kind of free song of a kind of staged anarchy or stage and also occasionally sort of staged violence. People don't really think they know how to do stand up comedy until they've done 500 gigs. But after about 500 or so, you've you've honed a sort of version of yourself that he's still related to who you are but it works for the purposes that you need it to work for.
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