If you want to understand modern politics‚ you have to understand modern fandom
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If you want to understand modern politics‚ you have to understand modern fandom

It’s a common observation that modern-day politics increasingly resembles fandom: Both feature communities created around and united by passion‚ and both are often heavily fixated on a single public figure. Many pundits are now calling right-wing voters “the Trump fandom‚” as though there’s little difference between a Trumpist who flocks to a political rally and a member of the Beyhive snapping up seats to Coachella. Drawing general parallels between the two movements can seem easy‚...