Donald Trump keeps getting called “dark,” and there is no doubt that part of Trump’s pitch is based on the gloom Americans feel about the state of the world and the gross incompetence of our leadership.
But the truth is that Donald Trump, more often than not, leads with humor, although the kind of humor that half the country is blind to. His is a teasing, often lowbrow sense of humor that relies on tropes, nicknames, and bawdy stories at times. For people of the “right” class, it is not funny and endearing but rather crude and offputting.
If you look at Trump’s campaign over the past few weeks, despite the man having been shot and enduring the most appalling smear campaign in American history, enduring lawfare that would make Vladimir Putin smile, and a corporate media onslaught of lies, Trump is literally dancing his way into the Oval Office.
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