{"id":105106,"date":"2016-11-22T19:40:45","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T00:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=105106"},"modified":"2016-11-23T10:49:37","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T15:49:37","slug":"his-frown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/22\/his-frown\/","title":{"rendered":"His Frown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_105111\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/trumpsfeelingschart.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105111\" class=\"wp-image-105111\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/trumpsfeelingschart.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"370\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-105111\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Yale Institute of Charts.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The other day, an Uber driver asked me to come join his church. I told him I was relatively busy being a nonpracticing Jew but that I\u2019d think about it. He said, You don\u2019t need to do anything. You just need faith.<\/p>\n<p>And my first thought was, Well, that sounds pretty swell.<\/p>\n<p>And then I thought, Hold on, WTF?\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Similarly, a few hundred times these past weeks, I\u2019ve heard <a href=\"http:\/\/theconcourse.deadspin.com\/donald-trump-doesnt-like-this-any-more-than-you-do-1788862854\" target=\"_blank\">people say<\/a>,\u00a0Look at his face<em>. <\/em>Look at the face of our President-elect \u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/theconcourse.deadspin.com\/donald-trump-doesnt-like-this-any-more-than-you-do-1788862854\" target=\"_blank\">Doesn\u2019t he look bummed<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>And my first thought is, Ha, yeah totally.<\/p>\n<p>And then I think, Wait, hold on.<\/p>\n<p>Is ours\u00a0the reaction of the disappointed? \u201cMaybe <em>he\u2019s <\/em>disappointed,\u00a0<em>too<\/em>!\u201d A kind of losing team\u2019s Schadenfreude: at least the winner isn\u2019t happy about it. At least I\u2019m not alone in my pain.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s something familiar about this. After Brexit, there was a certain smugness in the aftermath, also on the losing side. It went like this: <em>lots of people wish they could take it back<\/em>. Then, it was Leavers against Remainers; and the knee-jerk source of comfort was the idea that the side that won was actually full of people who were bummed. Now, we go after just the man at the top, the named winner, as if to cut the head off the winning team (or at least paint a sad face on it). Or to elevate ourselves back up to the seat of power.<\/p>\n<p>To say\u00a0\u201che\u2019s bummed\u201d is really to attempt to say\u00a0<em>he feels what I feel<\/em>. Which\u2014after his seventy years on this planet, and however many of yours, and probably none of them together\u2014is a pretty silly thing to assume after just eleven seconds with a couple of pictures from a dark hallway and a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>And yet\u00a0I can\u2019t help but feel like I <em>do<\/em> know what\u2019s happening behind the glaze. <a href=\"http:\/\/people.com\/politics\/donald-trump-steak-dinner-sneak-out-ditches-press-pool\/\">Fleeing<\/a> his press corps seemed to prove it: he was panicking that they\u2019re going to take his freedoms away. (But, in finding out that he\u2019s immune to punishment, he\u2019s rediscovering those freedoms.)<\/p>\n<p>As my grandmother used to say, You know what happens when you assume?<\/p>\n<p>And I\u2019d say, No, Grandma, what happens when I assume \u2026<\/p>\n<p>And she\u2019d say, You run the risk of systematically disenfranchising the population by reinforcing the narrative that nothing is out of place.<\/p>\n<p>Now, my grandma is not your average grandma. But what she lacks in adages, she makes up for in adages.<\/p>\n<p>That is to say: holy shit, we\u2019re going to be in a lot of trouble if our appetite for speaking truth to power is deflected by the silly suggestion that power has heard all the truth it needs.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, neither Grandma nor I would say that we have shown our true colors just because we needed to let off a little steam Trump Dumping.<\/p>\n<p>This is something that resonates for supporters on all sides of all the aisles, as much as ever before: we do not know what our politicians are <em>thinking<\/em>. We are still parsing an actor\u2019s words as bonafide speech\u2014like processing a joke as if its jokeness were entirely inconsequential. If you look for the President-elect in his speeches, you will find him somewhere deep inside his face, his foot on a lever that lets all those well-worn words slip out. And then we wonder, What did he <em>mean<\/em>? As if meaning had anything to do with it, and as if <em>he<\/em> was the one making it.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s a human derivative. If all the waveforms of every American sound bite (and only the sound bites, mind you) were smushed together\u2014he\u2019s the guy reading that Rorschach blot.<\/p>\n<p>I never read the Gospels in the Hebrew school I never went to, but in the car with that Uber driver, I remembered what it says in James 2:17 (that is, it was familiar enough to guess within the margin-of-Google):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u2026 faith, if it hath not works, is dead.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I Googled fast, and I asked the driver about that, and he said no, no, deeds didn\u2019t matter, and long story short I\u2019m still Jewish. But really, something else was going on.<\/p>\n<p>What may be true for the reward of an eternal afterlife is certainly true for the reward of good governance. That is to say: if we only have faith that our government is listening, but we do not make them listen, then we\u2019ve got nothing. If we do not work for it, our faith is nothing but comfort we\u2019re whispering into each other\u2019s ears as we grow more and more desperate for others to whisper into ours.<\/p>\n<p><em>Adam Valen Levinson is a sociologist at Yale University and the author of adventure travelogue <\/em>The Abu Dhabi Bar Mitzvah<em> (2017). \u00a0He does stand up in New York City and Shanghai, and his TV show in the works is a closely guarded secret.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, an Uber driver asked me to come join his church. I told him I was relatively busy being a nonpracticing Jew but that I\u2019d think about it. He said, You don\u2019t need to do anything. You just need faith. And my first thought was, Well, that sounds pretty swell. 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