He denies the idea of ‘white privilege’, rails against ‘obese lesbians’, ‘immigrant loving’ and ‘muslim pandering’, while praising the superiority of Western civilization and Christianity. ![]() He describes himself as a lover of Halloween and all that ‘dark, subversive stuff’, selling himself as fighting the prudery of political correctness, rebelling against the social justice and feminist ‘thought police’ who allegedly don’t allow the public to talk about society’s real problems. Milo Yiannopoulos – the Trump and Leave UK supporting Breitbart News columnist – is a prime example. Sometimes the present political movement openly invokes its connection to carnival traditions. In all languages there is a great number of expressions related to the genital organs, the anus and buttocks.’ The body that figures in all the expressions of the unofficial speech of the people is the body that fecundates and is fecundated, that gives birth and is born, devours and is devoured, drinks, defecates, is sick and dying. For example, the theme of mockery and abuse is almost entirely bodily and grotesque. this mode of representation still exists today. ‘The mighty material bodily element of these images uncrowns and renews the entire world of medieval ideology and order. Writing about the carnival tradition in late-medieval French literature, the Soviet literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin wrote: They thus tap into the folk tradition of carnival, the medieval and renaissance Saturnalia where all the usual hierarchies and rules were thrown out to be replaced with a drunken anarchy, where ordinary people would dress up in grotesque parodies of clergy and royalty, where licentiousness was legitimized and social nobodies were made swearing, farting and puking Lords of Misrule for a day. On a deeper level, they are disassociating themselves from the ‘elite’ head of the ‘body politic’, and aliging with the more ‘common’ activities of the lower strata. This politically incorrect, ‘earthy’ humor is a way for politicians to show off how ‘anti-establishment’ they are: their ‘anti-elitist’ politics are branded via a rejection of established moral and linguistic norms. Farage confessed in his autobiography that he was too drunk to perform: ‘Liga wasn’t screwed: I was.’ 1 She claimed he shagged her seven times before falling asleep and ‘snoring like a horse’. And among many other instances of bawdy talk, Nigel Farage, the man who helped lead the movement for the UK leaving the EU, boasted about taking home a twenty-five-year-old Latvian, Liga, after a heavy night of drinking. ![]() In Holland, GeenPeil – the anti-EU, anti-immigrant group who made Putin’s day by calling for and winning a referendum opposing the EU Association Agreement with Ukraine – uses the social media handle ‘E-penis’. He made his rhetorical mark early in his presidential career, breaking diplomatic taboo by saying that if foreigners wanted to find out about Islam in Russia they should come to Moscow and be circumcised, and, less in jest, promising to whack terrorists ‘while they are on the shitter’.ĭonald Trump talks in the same way – he’s boasted of grabbing women ‘by the pussy’ (what he calls ‘locker-room talk’), accused journalist Megyn Kelly of asking him tough questions because she had ‘blood coming out of her wherever’, and at one point reduced a US election debate to a discussion about the size of his cock (he claims no one has ever been disappointed). This week he made headlines by declaring that Russian prostitutes are ‘the best in the world’. ‘If my aunt had balls she’d be my uncle’ he once told surprised foreign correspondents, a way of dismissing their questions about a potential dip in Russian currency. Vladimir Putin has been a pioneer of the trend. ![]() Their bawdy lingo tells us more about their political strategy and strengths than any manifesto: populism and penis jokes go hand in hand. These men all constantly joke about private parts, fucking and shitting, often partnered with boasts about excessive screwing, eating and drinking. Gender? Closer – but the answer is simpler: their sense of humour. What do Trump, Putin, the Presidents of the Czech Republic and Philippines, right-wing anti-EU Europeans and the British Foreign Minister have in common? Ideology? Not always.
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