'People tend to love a heel.'
Trump’s tendency to create catchy, funny nicknames for people he’s attacking is also reminiscent of wrestlers coming up with epithets for each other. And like a wrestler, Trump plays off the crowd reaction—testing what appeals to his audience. “We’ve seen this before, where he comes up with nicknames and maybe tries it out, it doesn’t resonate, and he changes course,” Kelly said.
the New York Times the bravado may be masking a deeper anxiety, since Smith’s investigations are serious business that, if successful, could land him in prison.Whether these attacks are an impulsive temper tantrum or a tactic to play on his supporters’ emotions, there is one thing everyone agrees on: Trump isn’t going to stop anytime soon. It’s essential to his magic.
To get your head around this, it’s helpful to understand the wrestling concept of “kayfabe.” Here’s how a sociologist named Nick Rogers described it in relation to Trump inAlthough the etymology of the word is a matter of debate, for at least 50 years “kayfabe” has referred to the unspoken contract between wrestlers and spectators: We’ll present you something clearly fake under the insistence that it’s real, and you will experience genuine emotion.
To a wrestling audience, the fake and the real coexist peacefully. If you ask a fan whether a match or backstage brawl was scripted, the question will seem irrelevant. You may as well ask a roller-coaster enthusiast whether he knows he’s not really on a runaway mine car. The artifice is not only understood but appreciated: The performer cares enough about the viewer’s emotions to want to influence them. Kayfabe isn’t about factual verifiability; it’s about emotional fidelity.
“It’s been very difficult to kind of defeat him at his own game, because very few politicians have taken him up on combating him in the same type of language he uses,” Kelly said. “He’s starting again in the primary. It’s unclear if any of these other competitors can match the same tactic, because it’s been largely a winning
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