Just in time for the Trump Inaugural, nothing will have changed in the production of genre illustrations of racist fantasy art posters for hanging on the RWNJ wall.
No one will mess with the self-expression of your reactionary ignorance. More informercial tchotchkes in time for the war on Xmas.
Thomas Kinkade has no competition, although it would be amusing if this brand of clerk-like illustration makes it to the National Portrait Gallery.
Hannity thinks art made for poster reproduction, like FoxNews is the kunstkammer for American Grandeur and US crypto-fascism. And social realism, isn’t that what forgotten men understand?
After all, wasn’t that the reason for voting for Trump — to affirm “paintings and sculptures that were traditional in manner and that exalted the "blood and soil" values of racial purity, militarism, and obedience. ”
This one should be renamed Open Carry for Diego Rivera's Mural at Rockefeller Center:
(because Napoleon, Lenin, and Henry VIII have left their footprint on Christianity)
Some people make issue of the fact that it’s a white guy sitting on the bench, like it’s somehow racial. I was talking with an African-American man and he asked why I didn’t make him black or something else. And I said, “Well, if I made him black, then certainly the issue of the painting would have been racial.” If I had made him Latino, then it would have been about illegal immigration. And if I’d made him a woman, imagine what that would have been.
This is a great example of the white racial frame in action. I have seen few better examples of white privilege and the pathological normality of Whiteness than the above explanation for an "artistic" choice.
And Obama?
Obama standing on the Constitution represents his taking action against what the Constitution stands for, which, to my mind, is limited government. I wasn’t trying to make fun of Obama I tried to paint him in a very serious manner. He understands the Constitution and he knows exactly what he’s doing.
As Kevin Drum and others have pointed out, the Right-wing establishment has created its own reality and alternative knowledge system. These are the hallmarks of a cult, one with which negotiations in the interest of the Common Good are impossible because the terms of debate (and reality) are not in agreement.
Ironically, you can educate and work with folks who are ignorant. The populist conservatives of the present day are not ignorant, they have cultivated a set of tautological beliefs in a closed system where a thing is true simply because they will it to be. Facts be damned. McNaughton's interview is a great example of the George Constanza rule in American political culture: remember, it's not a lie if you believe it.
And what is Jon McNaughton's newest painting? "One Nation Under Socialism." Meh. Insert finger into mouth in order to induce vomiting.
www.dailykos.com/… (h/t Chauncey )