Since July of this year, Trump has taken up a clearer posture as a politician-cum-comic. He marshals the pleasure of jokes to do the dirty work of dehumanizing people and groups he sees as a threat to ...
In both cases, “it’s just a joke.” What Trumpian humor and rhetoric have unleashed will not disappear under a Harris presidency, as the supposedly “post-racial” Obama era made clear.
But it was one of the event’s opening acts, a stand-up comic brazen in his use of explicitly racist jokes, who struck the rawest nerve in a country long plagued by the problem of white ...