Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photos: Getty Images David Frum, the former George W. Bush speechwriter and current never-Trump conservative, recently wrote, “The post-Trump right has a style as distinctive as its authoritarian substance: trolling, ironic, evasive.” But that ain’t so. On the right, trolling has been part of the story from the beginning.
Some desperately poor people took them seriously, including one Arkansas mother of nine who accepted a bus ticket to Hyannis, Massachusetts, site of the famous summer compound of the extended family of the president of the United States, where, naturally, neither the job nor the presidential welcome she’d been promised materialized.
Another category of troll falls under what blogger Josh Marshall used to describe, in a less enlightened age , as the right’s “bitch-slap theory of American politics.” That’s the one where you get something a little bit wrong on purpose in order to make the libs look like pedantic asses if they correct you, or weaklings if they don’t.
Conservatives see politics as a pitiless war of all against all, a zero-sum game where each side ruthlessly seeks advantage in any way they can. A reverse freedom ride organizer, for instance, said liberals’ motive in supporting civil rights was “using the American Negro for a pawn just for their votes.
Conservatives, of course, will claim innocence: They’re only “counterpunching” in a fight liberals started — and liberals just don’t fight fair. Not only have they mastered the trick of cynically signaling virtue, they’ve invented a way to keep us from fighting back: political correctness. They have outlawed telling what everyone actually knows is the truth. That’s the soul of the liberals’ cruel cunning. Trolling is the perfect way to fight back.
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