White Men Running (For President)
The DNC’s nostalgic embrace of familiar, and obsolete, white male leadership
“Nostalgia is a sentiment of loss and displacement, but it is also a romance with one's own fantasy.”
Svetlana Boym, “Nostalgia and its Discontents.”
In this 2020 Democratic primary reality TV season, Biden, O’Rourke, Buttigieg, and Sanders all seem to be performing different facets of a kind of idealized white male type. ...
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