The Resistance is now a lifestyle brand and please, don't buy it
There's good news for people who want make #Dissent a daily part of their routine and do it in style: the #Resistance is now a lifestyle brand.
It didn't take long after Trump's election for people to take down their Hillary signs and throw up wood-framed Resistance paintings, un-ironically tattoo #ShePersisted onto their bodies and turn a United States Senator into a vegan energy bar. Members of the Resistance could easily be identified by their "Post-Trump" haircut or their "Future is Female" shirt, Hillary's loss forever memorialized in a poly-cotton blend.
Consumer power is undoubtedly a form of political power, and lifestyle politics, however GOOP-ified, are still politics. But as America sloshes through one apocalyptic political crisis after the next, and hip progressives respond by stress-licking the latest anti-Trump lollipop, it really begs the question: what the hell is everyone doing? Read more...
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