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Bradley Lewis's avatar

Gad Saad had a really good diagnosis as TDS settled in back then that it had everything to do with aesthetics-- that Trump was so aesthetically displeasing to, let's face it, in large part the more intellectually snobbish, that everything was tainted with this displeasure, and then add to that the fact of media propaganda and, 'voila!'

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Ian Schmidt's avatar

A decent amount of leftist hatred of Western society comes from snobbery. Which is ironic given the USSR spent a lot of money starting in the 1920s to make Western artists convince the idiot rich that ugly things were the true art. Sort of their own version of USAID, come to think of it.

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