The Satire And Humor In Today's Politics
Rick Wilson's The Enemies List
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The Power of Self-Defeating Humor
The first thing you do is embed self-deprecating humor alongside these extremist policies, he says. Trump of course, he can't take any sense of critique and that's what I sort of refer to in my book as Citizen Satire - which you're just seeing more and more of now. The messages that punch through harder are often not the explicitly explanatory political nuts and volt stuff.
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