>anti-nixon music is good
>anti-reagan music is good
>anti-bush music is good
>anti-trump music is dogshit
why is this?
Anti-nixon music is good
Henry Cook
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Joshua Jones
It happened the same time poptimism was being pushed, and we were culturally bankrupt as a whole
Tyler Bennett
>>anti-trump music is dogshit
Everyone forgot how to make music and could only speak in social media lingo instead.
Asher White
Trump is just impossible to make fun of. That's a big part of the key to his success. Nixon, Reagan and Bush were very easy to make fun of. Nixon and Reagan especially came off as super stiff and uptight, so rebellious rock music is an easy way to mock them. Trump is way too cartoonish for this. And there's so much hysteria surrounding him, the only way to really critique him and be at all respectable is to be extremely calm and unemotional, which doesn't lend itself to music.
Alexander Reed
treating trump like any of them was their main mistake. he's a populist, never started wars, never gave a shit about "spreading democracy", and was trying to stop all the job outsourcing.
Nolan Nelson
Because anti trump music comes from a place of moral faggotry and bitching. All the other ones had edge.
Liam Diaz
Trump is already a caricature and as a result is difficult to satirize because he's already such a ridiculous person
Brandon Gomez
Let's think this through, user.
Your first three mentions are Nixon, Reagan, and Bush. I'll assume you mean both Bush's.
Nixon had watergate, was widely accused of being an establishment totalitarian, and was also a pretty open racist when talking with his staff (namely Haldeman and Ehrlichman). He started the war on drugs and also dragged his feet on getting America out of the conflict in Vietnam.
Reagan largely ignored the AIDS crisis, was a crook (see Iran / Contra), greatly increased the budget deficit, the wealth gap became wider, and homelessness also increased.
As for the Bush's, well, what can you say? They both started wars, were crooks, were globalists, and probably had a hand in orchestrating or at least allowing 9/11 to happen. They're collectively responsible for millions of deaths worldwide, some of which are even still occurring today.
Now on to Orange Man.
Trump is mean. He says mean things to people who say mean things to him. He did not start any wars. His wife is hot, his kids are successful and not on drugs and/or banging underage prostitutes in southeast Asia. Yes, he's a jerk. Yes, he a narcissist. But he is, in no way, shape, or form, comparable to those other four guys in terms of "evil".
And that is why anti-Trump music fucking sucks. People just WISH he was actually Hitler, but he isn't. Hell, he's not even Reagan or Nixon. He's just a fat, rich orange man who ran for president and won because all other politicians are fucking awful. Trump, the historical figure, is simply an indictment of an American culture that has become complete shit from every angle imaginable. This is also why he's impossible to parody.
Christian Russell
Trump had the january 6th riots and the election fraud conspiracy, that's a pretty big scandal
Aaron Jackson
that was at the end though, doesnt really apply to the other 4 years
Henry Bennett
YG feat. Nipsey Hussle - FDT is the only good one
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Jordan Clark
A large part of it has to do with the appeal of much political music. Back during Nixon, Reagan and (even) W’s terms, there was a fair amount to which opposition media voices still took them seriously. Although all of those figures would get castigated in the press from time to time, you could hardly say that such opposition occurred across a united front.
Trump set himself in opposition to the media entirely from the outset, and consequently the majority of media at large took off their gloves and went in on him, just as he hoped they would. I strongly dislike the man and his policies, but there’s no getting around the fact that he received a lot more negative coverage than analogous conservatives of the past. This happened in part because of increasing polarization that loosened norms of politeness that previous presidents enjoyed, wherever they lied on the ‘political spectrum.’
In short, the expression of political opposition to the executive branch has become more brutal in the last decade amongst journalists and other public figures, as politics becomes our modern societal blood sport. The result in music is that politics has become so public where discussion of them becomes perfunctory and unexciting. Instead of being your secret that you curate and allow to grow into a coherent set of ideals, your beliefs are often dragged into the light, regardless of whether you live in a leftist, liberal, conservative or reactionary community. Anti-Trump music consequently became similarly banal, simply because the people making it had nothing new to say, even if you agreed with then wholeheartedly.
Back in the 80s, if you listened to a song by, say, the Dead Kennedys stating that Reagan was a fascist who would dangerously unbalance the world at large, it seemed like a world unto itself. There was a sense of excitement in finding that sort of music. Find something saying the same about Trump today, and you’d just think the artist watches MSNBC.
Jack Hernandez
>W-WE'RE NOT S-SNOWFLAKES!!!
What the FUCK was he thinking?
Juan Perry
Trump sucks but the Trump hate was getting somewhat ridiculous at its height. Every little thing the guy said was blown out of proportion and the corporate news outlets were making all these constant absurd "literally literally Hitler" comparisons over dumb tweets that it made it easy for you to disregard the actual serious shit he fucked up.
Blake Howard
imagine if U2 were around in the 1940s and did a live show from the gates of Auschwitz, making an emotional plea for Hitler to recognize the humanity of everyone they were killing during an extended jam on the bridge of "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
Brayden Diaz
Kek
Jack Brown
Settle down.
Aiden Moore
Kino
Brody Turner
The Qtard cult he spawned on the right that denied any faults and came up with elaborate theories to explain how Trump was actually playing 3d chess or fighting a secret war with the deep state satanist baby eaters or whatever and would make Trump worship the core of their identity was definitely unsettling for sure though.
Trump himself inspired such polarizing reactions and extremist groups but he himself in terms of actual governance and personal ideological belief comes off as a typical politically incorrect right leaning boomer dipshit who misses the good ol days, the kind of middle American fat old guy who swills beer and eats a big mac while yelling at fox broadcasts on the TV for 8 hours except in the package of a showboating rich playboy celebrity. He just sounds like a typical American grandpa and isn't well read or educated enough to be this sort of Machivellean fascist mastermind ushering in some great nationalist traditionalist rebirth and a eugenic white supremacist world order (unless he has someone who actually is that like Bannon whispering in his ear), but people were legitimately acting like he was. The biggest reason why Trump shouldn't have been president and his biggest fault was that he was incompetent, impulsive, ill informed, and lacked qualification for POTUS because his background was largely entertainment/marketing/real estate.
He inspired violent and deranged extremist movements on both the left and right, but truth be told the conditions for these movements were likely already being set in motion before Trump and he just exacerbated it. There has been a huge demand for a leader that could rally the masses in a time of mass discontentment post 2008 and I think most people were just in that sort of anti establishment fuck it all mentality to blame for Trump's win. His governance created a mass hysteria in part because the media was so out of its gourd for it more so than him being that much worse than other presidents.
Benjamin Brown
>spotted in the crowd during "Bullet The Blue Sky"
Caleb Morales
to be fair, I didn't like 90% of anti-bush music but I was a raging neocon back then and thought people that mocked Bush somehow were gay for doing so. of course, I'm different now but man Green Day and NOFX just blow fucking chunks and I say this as someone who loves punk music.
Bingo. though I have a soft spot for Nixon for some reason.
Carson Morales
Trump is hard to satirize because he's so fucking dumb that none of it becomes fiction.
Beyond that, Brujeria did good on this front.
Isaac Gray
>as someone who loves punk music
No one who loves punk music really considers pop punk anything but pedo grooming trash. Not punk.