YAS GIRLBOSS SLAY

the rise of ssri political culture

Cluster B politics, illustrated:

I’ve been reading “left” news to see how Democrats are responding to the deeply autocratic insider defenestration of the presidential candidate chosen by party voters. Short answer: they’re all like OH SNAP and shit, ‘cause Donald Trump is feeling exposed. He’s humiliated! He’s melting down, he’s panicking, he feels inadequate, he’s running scared. HuffPo has the feelz. Jimmy Kimmel has some thoughts about how Melania is feeling, and that shit all cold and shit! Boom, bitch!

Progressive news and political community sites are remarkably focused on feelings of humiliation and inadequacy. Daily Kos:

Here’s how you write if you want to draw eyeballs at Daily Kos:

Note the absence of commas. Short sentences, short paragraphs, simple style, plain declaration, zero ambiguity, relentless emphasis on the emotional state of the players, zero concern for evidence and structure. We are unified. Kamala is kicking ass. Trump is stressed. He is freaking out.

We feel very good now. He feels very scared now. It is good.

Mother Jones would like you to know that Donald Trump is very unhappy and he never really laughs and that’s why he’s SO UPSET that wonderful funny Kamala laughs so wonderfully:

That last piece quotes Mary Trump, you’ll be shocked to hear, as she concludes that Donald Trump is very unsatisfied and depressed and mirthless. And Mary Trump is something of an expert on mirthless, joyless existence.

Pause to admire the psychological precision of progressive clickbaiting: here’s all of today’s news about feelings of inadequacy and the threat of public humiliation. Oh my god you guys Trump is a WRECK right now!

We mostly don’t have politics, debate over the limits of government and the proper role of policy in shaping society and the economy. Ahead: a hundred days of amygdala punching. Fear fear fear humiliation. Jimmy Kimmel probably says Trump just wants to call in sick and spend the whole day in sweatpants in front of the television!

Trump’s probably gonna eat a whole quart of ice cream while he watches The View for like the third day in a row. That’s so typical of him! Kamala is SO STRONG, why am I crying again, anyway I CAN’T WAIT TO VOTE FOR HER she’s amazing she probably never feels humiliated and exposed THE WAY TRUMP DOES but anyway I think I’ll try cookies and cream tomorrow