Цветовая дифференциация штанов

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Из речи Барака Обамы на демократическом съезде:

My grandparents explained that they didn’t like show-offs. They didn’t admire braggarts or bullies. They didn’t respect mean-spiritedness, or folks who were always looking for shortcuts in life. Instead, they valued traits like honesty and hard work. Kindness and courtesy. Humility; responsibility; helping each other out. [...] America has changed over the years. But these values my grandparents taught me – they haven’t gone anywhere. [...] That’s why anyone who threatens our values, whether fascists or communists or jihadists or homegrown demagogues, will always fail in the end.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/dnc-2016-obama-prepared-remarks-226345

Через два месяца, выступая в Пенсильвании, Обама высказал удивление поддержкой Трампа среди рабочего класса:

I mean, look, I keep on reading this analysis that, well, you know, Trump has got support from like working folks. Really? Like, this is the guy you want to be championing working people? This guy who spent 70 years on this Earth showing no concern for working people — this guy is suddenly going to be your champion? I mean, he spent most of his life trying to stay as far away from working people as he could. And now this guy is going to be the champion of working people? Huh? I mean, he wasn’t going to let you on his golf course. He wasn’t going to let you buy in his condo. And now suddenly this guy is going to be your champion?
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/09/13/remarks-president-hillary-america-event-philadelphia-pa

Еще через два месяца рабочие Пенсильвании уверенно проголосуют за Трампа. Кандидат от республиканцев выиграл этот штат впервые с 1988 года.

Что произошло с традиционными американскими ценностями вроде "they didn’t like show-offs"?



Если в чем-то обвинять оторвавшиеся от народа "элиты", так это в том, что они утратили цветовую дифференциацию штанов. В отличие от Дональда Трампа,  который как будто явился из прошлого времени, американские элиты утратили манеру кичиться богатством и демонстрировать свой высокий статус внешними аттрибутами. Встретив его на улице, кто бы мог распознать в скромном парне в серой футболке и джинсах мультимиллардера Марка Цукерберга, состояние которого в 15 раз больше, чем состояние Трампа?

Это явление описано в книжке консервативного комментатора Дэвида Брукса Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There, выпущеной в 2000 г. Bobos означает "bourgeois bohemian" - смесь буржуазии и богемы, которую успешно воплощают в своем стиле жизни нынешние американские элиты. Дональду Трампу забыли об этом сообщить, но в конце 20 века нарочитая богемная простота вошла в моду.



Impressive formality has been replaced by open-minded daring. Corporate America has gone more casual. Microsoft execs appear on the cover of Fortune with beanie propeller hats on their heads. Others are photographed looking like mellow rock stars, wearing expensive, collarless linen shirts or multicolored sweaters and rag wool socks under funky, but expensive, sandals. Often they'll be shown in jeans standing proudly in the main hallway of a Rocky Mountain log mansion.

Нетрудно представить, насколько подчеркнутое отрицание внешнего статуса среди элитных снобов раздражает простых рабочих людей, мечтающих однажды разбогатеть. Нет, выиграв лотерею, они не будут одеваться в серые футболки и джинсы. Они будут кичиться своим богатством подобно Дональду Трампу: одеваться в дорогие костюмы, женится на восточноевропейских моделях и писать свое имя большими буквами на личных небоскребах и личный Боингах. Как знать, можем быть им даже удасться завести свой собственный Макдональдс.

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When Mr. Trump glided down a gilded Trump Tower escalator to kick off his presidential campaign in June 2015, his finances needed a jolt.
His core businesses were reporting mounting losses — more than $100 million over the previous two years. The river of celebrity-driven income that had long buoyed them was running dry.
If Mr. Trump hoped his unlikely candidacy might, at least, revitalize his brand, his barrage of derogatory remarks about immigrants quickly cost him two of his biggest and easiest sources of cash — licensing deals with clothing and mattress manufacturers that had netted him more than $30 million. NBC, his partner in Miss Universe — source of nearly $20 million in profits — announced that it would no longer broadcast the pageant; he sold it soon after.
Now his tax records make clear that he is facing a battery of threats to his business and his own financial well-being.
Over the past decade, he appears to have filled the cash-flow gaps with a series of one-shots that may not be available again.
In 2012, he took out a $100 million mortgage on the commercial space in Trump Tower. He took nearly the entire amount as a payout, his tax records show. His company has paid more than $15 million in interest on the loan, but nothing on the principal. The full $100 million comes due in 2022.
In 2013, he withdrew $95.8 million from his Vornado partnership account.
And in January 2014, he sold $98 million in stocks and bonds, his biggest single month of sales in at least the last two decades. He sold $54 million more in stocks and bonds in 2015, and $68.2 million in 2016. His financial disclosure released in July showed that he had as little as $873,000 in securities left to sell.
Mr. Trump’s businesses reported cash on hand of $34.7 million in 2018, down 40 percent from five years earlier.
What’s more, the tax records show that Mr. Trump has once again done what he says he regrets, looking back on his early 1990s meltdown: personally guaranteed hundreds of millions of dollars in loans, a decision that led his lenders to threaten to force him into personal bankruptcy.
This time around, he is personally responsible for loans and other debts totaling $421 million, with most of it coming due within four years.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/27/us/donald-trump-taxes.html