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THE TRUMP ESTABLISHMENT

BY MICHAEL WOLFF

@MichaelWolNYC

THEY’RE BAAAACK: The ongoing expressions of shock on the part of the cultural establishment reflects its fear that Trump’s victory means the unapologetic white male has returned.
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IF ALL HIS other cultural blasphemies did not finish off Donald Trump, his grab-them-by-thepussy line, in the overwhelming opinion of the liberal media, would. That it did not might suggest that many cultural certainties are a lot less firm than most of the media and culture industry thought. Twenty years (or so) of rule-tightening about how we talk about sex, gender, race and our multicultural society was put up for review by Trump’s election.

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27 January 2017
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