Fantastic Votage 0
In the Raleigh News and Observer, Duke University fellow Geoffrey Harpham offers a novel take on the appeal of Donald Trump–that he offers a vision of privilege with no responsibility and no cost, a candidate, in short, not of freedom, but of feckless self-indulgence. A snippet:
In this sense, Trump is not really a political candidate, but rather an embodiment of a fantasy of infinite power and freedom without costs (“the Mexicans will pay for it”), consequences or conscience.
