Notwithstanding his gift for self-deception, even Donald Trump knows that he would now lose anything like a free and fair election. He would lose the popular vote more soundly than four years ago, and he would lose in the Electoral College as well. But he could still succeed in disrupting the electi...
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As a metaphor for American electoral politics, the taste test used by marketers of food products is a master stroke of misdirection. In a taste test, ‘food’ is reduced to a matter of taste--- versus digestion, metabolism, nutritional content, conditions of production and aesthetic appeal, for purpos...
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This essay is part of a periodic series on the 2020 presidential election. Some earlier pieces can be found here. Yes, I have heard this week’s presidential debate in Cleveland referred to as a shit show, clown car, clusterfuck, dumpster fire, and food fight, but now that I have heard, watched, and ...
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As a metaphor for American electoral politics, the taste test used by marketers of food products is a master stroke of misdirection. In a taste test, ‘food’ is reduced to a matter of taste--- versus digestion, metabolism, nutritional content, conditions of production and aesthetic appeal, for purpos...
counterpunch.org
This essay is part of a periodic series on the 2020 presidential election. Some earlier pieces can be found here. Yes, I have heard this week’s presidential debate in Cleveland referred to as a shit show, clown car, clusterfuck, dumpster fire, and food fight, but now that I have heard, watched, and ...
counterpunch.org