I think this article from The Week magazine can be enjoyed by those on both side of the political divide, though I may be wrong. It half-seriously compares the Trump phenomenon to the Punk Rock era.
I see where he’s coming from. There are certain similarities. What do you think?
No. It’s not.
Trying to do music differently doesn’t ruin a country.
AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA inhales HA HA HA HA HA
Trump ran for and was elected President. He can’t be a rebel against the establishment. He is the establishment.
That is a ridiculously horrible comparison.
Punk was profoundly anti-Nazi. To the point that neo-Nazi’s would show up and they’d get into fights with them (which, unfortunately, emboldened the Nazis) They would have championed the whole punching Nazi thing. Punk would not try to get their own safe spaces or whine about being called names. And they didn’t focus on trying to point out hypocrisy in liberals.
The only real overlap is that there are some vocal Trump supporters that admit they voted Trump to “screw the system.” But that doesn’t make them anything like Punk.
You know who else was a political amateur who destroyed the conservative establishment?
Alexander Hamilton!
Did I win? Was I right?
The analogy’s not completely terrible - though it relies on a particular definition of “punk rock.” For a rebuttal, here are the Dead Kennedys (lyrics NSFW): Dead Kennedys -Nazi Punks Fuck Off (lyrics) - YouTube
Ultimately, describing Trumpism, alt-rightism, red-Pillism, etc. as “punk” is pretty much as unspecific as describing them as “American.” You’ve got a decent limited-scope simile (“A is like B in that…”) but not a metaphor (“A is B”).
To put it another way:
IT’S SO VAGUE, IT’S NOT EVEN WRONG.
Addendum: trying to make right-wing views appealingly cool and edgy by pointing out how rebellious they are is an old, old game. And a losing game. There’s a reason more cool people listen to The Clash than Skrewdriver.
Quite fucking right.
It explains the hair style.
And the disdain for (the political equivalent of) good musicianship. :dubious:
It’s the kind of thing someone who knows nothing about punk rock outside of a few breathless newspaper articles from the late 70s would say.
I nominate Rat Scabies for attorney general.
Maybe Sab Grey could apply for a position.
Trumpism seems pretty…geriatric for a punk rock analogy.
who is flipper?