Highland Deac
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Style (owning the libs) over substance. For a group that hates Hollywood so much its quite funny how much donnie jenius loves celebrities and enjoys being one.
Demagogues often desire to have the respect and be seen as member of the very "elites" they love to attack in public. Joseph McCarthy was said to crave the approval of the news media and inner Senate "club" that he proclaimed to despise, yet which often rejected him. During Trump's presidency there were stories about how he privately wanted the NY Times, WaPo, and CNN to like and respect him, and I remember when CNN and the Times praised him once he and his followers were ecstatic to an almost giddy degree. There was an article on Tucker Carlson sometime back about why one reason he hates the other media elites and Hollywood so much is because they rejected him, and he's never gotten over the humiliating grilling that Jon Stewart gave him back on CNN's old Crossfire show. In yet another paradox of these types, they tend to crave the approval of the very people they attack, vilify, and abuse in public. And what their supporters never understand is that along with that goes a real contempt and sneering dismissal (in private, of course) of the people who do support them.