![]() ![]() ![]() That’s what’s drawn Jones here, to the CenturyLink Center in Bossier City, Louisiana, two weeks before Thanksgiving. They love Trump because he makes them feel like insiders even as they imagine him their outsider champion. It’s Möbius strip politics, Trumpism’s defining oxymoron: a populist elite, a mass movement of “free thinkers” all thinking the same thing. Jones, a big, vein-popping, occasionally church-going white man burdened with what he calls an “Islamic” name by his hippie mother, revels in this kind of coded message, a sense of possessing knowledge shared only by a select few. does mean white power-unless you say it doesn’t. The joke worked so well that it became real. It began as a joke-a “hoax” meant to trick liberals into believing that the raised fingers actually represent the letters WP: white power. sign-thumb meeting index finger, three fingers splayed-is a kind of secret handshake. For Trump supporters like Jones, the O.K.
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