{"id":14484,"date":"2020-12-02T05:08:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T05:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=14484"},"modified":"2024-11-04T02:30:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T02:30:14","slug":"worth-another-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=14484","title":{"rendered":"Worth another read&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"663\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/peek-a-boo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14487\" style=\"width:800px;height:663px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/peek-a-boo.jpg 800w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/peek-a-boo-300x249.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/peek-a-boo-768x636.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">THE CULTURE THAT CREATED DONALD TRUMP WAS LIBERAL, NOT CONSERVATIVE<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Donald Trump was promoted and schooled, made famous and made wealthy, by the same culture and economy that now reviles him.<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/staff\/jim-lewis\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Lewis<\/a><br>Click Jim Lewis link for Intercept story from March 28 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After all, it wasn\u2019t some Klan newsletter that first brought Trump to our attention: It was <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/vault\/issue\/1989-01-16\/page\/1\/\">Time<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/interviews\/a37230\/donald-trump-esquire-cover-story-august-2004\/?zoomable\">Esquire<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2015\/08\/spy-vs-trump\">Spy<\/a>. The Westboro Baptist Church didn\u2019t give him his own TV show: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Apprentice_%28U.S._TV_series%29\">NBC did<\/a>. And his boasts and lies weren\u2019t posted on Breitbart, they were published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/magazine\/1987\/12\/trump_excerpt198712\">Random House<\/a>. He was created by people who learned from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hello-mynameis.it\/Andy_Warhol_files\/PhilosophyAndyWarholALL.pdf\">Andy Warhol<\/a>, not Jerry Falwell, who knew him from galas at the Met, not fundraisers at Karl Rove\u2019s house, and his original audience was presented to him by Cond\u00e9 Nast, not Guns &amp; Ammo. He owes his celebrity, his money, his arrogance, and his skill at drawing attention to those coastal cultural gatekeepers \u2014 presumably mostly liberal \u2014 who first elevated him out of general obscurity, making him famous and rewarding him (and, not at all incidentally, themselves) for his idiocies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Court Painter thanks Peter Paul Rubens and Odilion Redon for image inspirations.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"778\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Donald-the-fall.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14494\" style=\"width:778px;height:1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Donald-the-fall.jpg 778w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Donald-the-fall-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Donald-the-fall-768x987.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"778\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ppr7-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14495\" style=\"width:778px;height:1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ppr7-copy.jpg 778w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ppr7-copy-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ppr7-copy-768x987.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"778\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/THe-Donald-playing-through.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14496\" style=\"width:778px;height:1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/THe-Donald-playing-through.jpg 778w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/THe-Donald-playing-through-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/THe-Donald-playing-through-768x987.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"778\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Trump-the-fall-copy-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14497\" style=\"width:778px;height:1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Trump-the-fall-copy-1.jpg 778w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Trump-the-fall-copy-1-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Trump-the-fall-copy-1-768x987.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"685\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Court-Painter-Golf.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14493\" style=\"width:1000px;height:685px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Court-Painter-Golf.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Court-Painter-Golf-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Court-Painter-Golf-768x526.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Court-Painter-America-drowning.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14527\" style=\"width:1001px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Court-Painter-America-drowning.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Court-Painter-America-drowning-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Court-Painter-America-drowning-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Court Painter and &#8220;America Drowning&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"535\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/America-drowning.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14526\" style=\"height:750px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/America-drowning.jpg 535w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/America-drowning-178x300.jpg 178w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 535px) 85vw, 535px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/America-drowning-install.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15908\" style=\"width:1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/America-drowning-install.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/America-drowning-install-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/America-drowning-install-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE CULTURE THAT CREATED DONALD TRUMP WAS LIBERAL, NOT CONSERVATIVE Donald Trump was promoted and schooled, made famous and made wealthy, by the same culture and economy that now reviles him. Jim LewisClick Jim Lewis link for Intercept story from March 28 2016. After all, it wasn\u2019t some Klan newsletter that first brought Trump to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=14484\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Worth another read&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14484"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27605,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14484\/revisions\/27605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}