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The ethic of total retaliation

Re-upping this one because it is more true every day. To understand Trumper beliefs, motivations, and behaviors, the closest model is the ethic of total retaliation, built out of resentment and famously deployed by the Hell’s Angels, people who felt left behind in the era immediately following WWII.

This Political Theorist Predicted the Rise of Trumpism. His Name Was Hunter S. Thompson.
In Hell’s Angels, the gonzo journalist wrote about left-behind people motivated only by “an ethic of total retaliation.” Sound familiar?
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