Helen Lewis

And so, yeah, if they want to reclaim the idea that they're going to have futuristic aesthetics, that could be kind of awesome.

But they would have to also deal with the fact that many people do not look forward to the future with a desperation to get there.

But that's also about the left tastemaker's hatred of the middle brow.

I mean, just to take architecture, right?

You have to show that you are a refined person by liking brutalism.

And if you just preferred a nice Doric column and a nice whitewashed, whatever it might be, that's kind of basic.

That's what normal people who don't know anything about architecture like.

And the problem is that there are far more normal people than there are people who know a lot about architecture.

And I think Trump has got that, right?

Trump just has the tastes of a kind of normie person.

He has the taste of a normal person who's got a lot of money rather than elite taste.

I think there was a piece about this at the time of the 2016 election, right?

Everything he owns is covered in gold.

which is what you kind of think, if I suddenly had loads of money, why wouldn't I cover anything in gold?

Whereas the thing that if you're a high net worth person who flies on pirate jets and reads Condé Nast Traveler magazine, everything should be in muted earth tones.

So his exact lack of taste...

in elite sense, is read by normal everyday people as he likes basic things that are easy to appreciate and nice.

You know, he wants, like he wants the, presumably he wants that ballroom to look like the Roman forum that people might have seen on, you know, on their holiday in Italy.

So this is a bit about the kind of the left's hatred of, yeah, of the middle brown, the popular and the mainstream.

I mean, you mentioned Hamilton.