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>But this began as a reflection on the kitschification of America in general, for which Trump is merely a last apostle. A culture becomes kitschified when it has lost its original vital force, the creative spark which once drove it forward, and has turned into a recursive parody of itself. That is America today, sapped of its original vigor and innovation, now trapped in an endlessly recycled loop, like degeneratively rewinding a cassette of oldies thousands of times until only barely-intelligible rasps remain. It’s a nation whose ethos has run dry of ideas and which has resigned to borrowing from the past—Monroe Doctrines, Gilded Ages, down to more recent times: replaying the neocon GWOT broken record over and over until the US military is ground down to chaff over the millstone of history. 

>Indeed, the country has become much like that painting: a pastiche of better times and vainly misguided hopes, a place where George Washington can sit beside a Tesla robot beneath the St. Louis arch while staring up at a bald eagle magnificently volant o’er the Statue of Liberty.

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