People already couldn't understand why he got the nomination. It was baffling. When he actually won the election over Light Of Our Life Hillary, they were shocked beyond belief. The worst possible thing had happened: they were wrong. When the post-mortems came out, it was unbearable. You mean we really did fuck over the working class? Ouch ouch ouch massive psychic damage (otherwise known as cognitive dissonance).
Now, they just want to be right about something. Anything! This will fit the bill. Covid was good, but now that the studies are finally coming out, it seems that they were in the wrong again. Cover it up and never talk about it again. With this Putin thing, they finally have a Snowball, an Emmanuel Goldstein, someone that they can get really performatively angry about in public. Someone to be the target of the Two Minutes Hate.
But even in the dystopia of Airstrip One, the Two Minutes Hate only lasted two minutes a day. On Twitter, it never ends. They can stay in that blessed state indefinitely. It's bliss.
Trump.
People already couldn't understand why he got the nomination. It was baffling. When he actually won the election over Light Of Our Life Hillary, they were shocked beyond belief. The worst possible thing had happened: they were wrong. When the post-mortems came out, it was unbearable. You mean we really did fuck over the working class? Ouch ouch ouch massive psychic damage (otherwise known as cognitive dissonance).
Now, they just want to be right about something. Anything! This will fit the bill. Covid was good, but now that the studies are finally coming out, it seems that they were in the wrong again. Cover it up and never talk about it again. With this Putin thing, they finally have a Snowball, an Emmanuel Goldstein, someone that they can get really performatively angry about in public. Someone to be the target of the Two Minutes Hate.
But even in the dystopia of Airstrip One, the Two Minutes Hate only lasted two minutes a day. On Twitter, it never ends. They can stay in that blessed state indefinitely. It's bliss.