The far left is loving anti-government gear meant to mock them, even if it’s being peddled by the right wing. Writing for Slate on Monday, Luke Winkie explained that MAGA isn’t exactly known for its fashion trends. He called it “garish, loud, and nonconformist—an advancement of something you could call ‘anti-taste.'” Meanwhile, MAGA makeup has become its own joke, with “Mar-a-Lago face” mocked as overly tightened, plumped up to the extreme. Women wear an “ocean of foundation, flattening the faces of Trump scions and aides alike with an unsightly matte beige.”In recent weeks, Trump World has become a joke for wearing ill-fitting Florsheim Oxford shoes because Trump guesses people’s sizes and then buys them shoes. In previous presidencies, like the Kennedy administration, first lady Jacqueline Kennedy set fashion trends adopted by millions of women. Trump hasn’t exactly evoked that level of inspiration, even with his infamous red hat, which Winkie mocks for its “ugly serif font.”That might be changing, said Winkie after looking through disgraced former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who started his own “store” for “cranks, QAnon freaks, and provincial morons terrified of cities.” Unexpectedly, the left is eating it up. “Who the f—— is designing Tucker Carlson’s merch,” posted a baffled user on X, with a slideshow of Carlson merch. The clothing line is “tailor-made” for the far left that wants to mock the right. As one respondent put it, “These go too hard, what the f——.”The same people who love hats that say things like “Not Today CIA” or “I thought you were a FED” are also socially conscious enough to love the merch but hate who the money goes to. Winkie cited one TikTok user who said, “I need these to hit the thrift stores so I can buy secondhand, because as a socialist I can’t support.” The woman stopped herself from buying anything. USA Today reported that there is a worker-owned fashion brand, called Means Workwear, that is selling its own version of Carlson’s clothing so people can wear pro-Zohran Mamdani clothing with the C in the shape of the communist hammer and sickle. Winkie didn’t care and pulled out his card for Carlson. Lefties might love it because “there’s always been a primal joy in donning the political trappings of conquered enemies,” he wrote. “Mamdani, no matter what Carlson asserts, won his election, and therefore the podcaster’s feeble burn is easily interpolated into victor’s spoils.”He wonders whether Carlson’s efforts were partly aimed at tricking Mamdani fans into buying merchandise from his shops. “If so, it brings perverse new meaning to that ‘Psyop Critic’ hat.” Winkie’s friends love the merch, then he tells people where he got it. “I feel like I’ve been duped,” his friend said. “I was like, Damn, I need that hat.”He closed by saying how funny he found it that so many of his family and friends were eager to take “doofy Polaroids” with the hat saying NYC with the C as a hammer and sickle.
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