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Ekalan Hou

is a writer and art historian based in California.

Benjamin & Bernie Meme: Against Aestheticization

By Ekalan Hou

If Donald Trump anchored his political discourse in the nostalgia for an ethnically pure golden age of Jacksonian conquest, the history paintings and sculptures in the Capitol are portals to that mythological past—fictions shoring up fictions.

Bernie Sanders from the 2021 Presidential Inauguration superimposed on Emanuel Leutze, <em>Washington Crossing the Delaware</em>, 1851. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Courtesy the author.
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