The Absolute Emptiness of ‘MAGA’ and ‘Black Lives Matter’
two most powerful political slogans of our era are “Make America Great Again”, and “Black Lives Matter.” Both of them, once uttered, seemed to invite immediate, obvious, simple-minded rejoinders. “America is already great,” say Trump’s opponents. “All Lives Matter,” say those who are made uncomfortable by the hint of exclusion in BLM. But for the initiated, the rejoinders almost prove the necessity of repeating the slogan. In other words, the genius of both phrases is that they are self-authenticating. When pundits and think-tankers shout ...
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