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Donald Trump, Gustave Le Bon, and the Myth of Mobocracy

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Curated: 10/11/2016 from www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/07/trump-le-bon-mob/493118/?utm_source=atltw
Donald Trump, Gustave Le Bon, and the Myth of Mobocracy

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the “crowd”—the concept, more so than the reality—was born in fin-de-siècle Paris... the fascination and fear of crowds obscures their reality and reach... But here’s the rub: “le crowd” is, in part, a mythical creature... less a feature of the modern political landscape than a creature of Le Bon’s private nightscape
the “mob” that took the Bastille was not bestial and base, but instead shaped by the actions of literate artisans.

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