Trump culture, on display at his Tulsa rally, is like an elaborate and dangerous alternate-reality game. Key words signal an in-the-know audience.
wouldn’t work. That’s not just bad health-advice, it turns a face mask into a uniform and citizens into adversaries.
It’s as if Trump is the orator of his own extremely dangerous alternate-reality game, a type of play that graphs itself onto the real world and utilizes key words as signals to an in-the-know audience. In a playful environment, it’s a cue to dig deeper into a singular universe. Here, it’s an endless tunnel that has followers view every living being and pop-culture item as a symbol of potential political opposition.
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