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He drives for a short-staffed, underfunded team owned by his father. Separately, T-shirts are popping up in storefronts with the slogan and the NASCAR logo.Īnd as for the real Brandon, things haven’t been so great. One message to supporters reads, “#FJB or LET’S GO BRANDON? Either way, President Trump wants YOU to have our ICONIC new shirt.”

His Save America PAC now sells a $45 T-shirt featuring “Let’s go Brandon” above an American flag. He cited the Afghanistan withdrawal, the southern border situation and rancorous school board debates as situations in which increasing numbers who were not vocally anti-Biden now feel that “how American institutions are telling the American public what they clearly see and understand to be true, is in fact not true.” was already angry well before the Brandon moment, believing the 2020 presidential election was rigged despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary, which has stood the test of recounts and court cases.īut anger has now moved beyond die-hard Trump supporters, said Stanley Renshon, a political scientist and psychoanalyst at the City University of New York. As for Facebook, leaked company documents have recently revealed how the platform increasingly ignored hate speech and misinformation and allowed it to proliferate.Ī portion of the U.S. “Before the expansion of social media a few years ago, there wasn’t an easily accessible public forum to shout your nastiest and darkest public opinions,” said Matthew Delmont, a history professor at Dartmouth College.Įven the racism and vitriol to which former President Barack Obama was subjected was tempered in part because Twitter was relatively new. The biggest difference, though, between the sentiments hurled at the Grover Clevelands of yore and modern politicians is the amplification they get on social media. Bill Clinton was criticized with such fervor that his most vocal critics were labeled the “Clinton crazies.” “F- Trump” graffiti still marks many an overpass in Washington, D.C. “We never fail to be horrified by some new outrage.” “We have a sense of the dignity of the office of president that has consistently been violated to our horror over the course of American history,” said Cal Jillson, a politics expert and professor in the political science department at Southern Methodist University. Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson were the subject of poems that leaned into racist tropes and allegations of bigamy. And if you object and are taking it too seriously, go away.”Īmerica’s presidents have endured meanness for centuries Grover Cleveland faced chants of “Ma, Ma Where’s my Pa?” in the 1880s over rumors he’d fathered an illegitimate child. “But it’s done with a little bit of a class. “Unless you are living in a cave, you know what it means,” he said. Veteran GOP ad maker Jim Innocenzi had no qualms about the coded crudity, calling it “hilarious.” Southwest said in a statement that the airline “takes pride in providing a welcoming, comfortable, and respectful environment” and that “behavior from any individual that is divisive or offensive is not condoned.” On Friday morning on a Southwest flight from Houston to Albuquerque, the pilot signed off his greeting over the public address system with the phrase, to audible gasps from some passengers. Two protesters dropped the euphemism entirely, holding up hand-drawn signs with the profanity. This past week, Biden’s motorcade was driving past a “Let’s Go Brandon” banner as the president passed through Plainfield, New Jersey.Īnd a group chanted “Let’s go, Brandon” outside a Virginia park on Monday when Biden made an appearance on behalf of the Democratic candidate for governor, Terry McAuliffe. When the president visited a construction site in suburban Chicago a few weeks ago to promote his vaccinate-or-test mandate, protesters deployed both three-word phrases. NASCAR and NBC have since taken steps to limit “ambient crowd noise” during interviews, but it was too late - the phrase already had taken off. But it became increasingly clear they were saying: “F- Joe Biden.” The reporter suggested they were chanting “Let’s go, Brandon” to cheer the driver. The crowd behind him was chanting something at first difficult to make out.

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Brandon Brown, a 28-year-old driver, had won his first Xfinity Series and was being interviewed by an NBC Sports reporter. 2 NASCAR race at the Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama. Americans are accustomed to their leaders being publicly jeered, and former President Donald Trump’s often-coarse language seemed to expand the boundaries of what counts as normal political speech.īut how did Republicans settle on the Brandon phrase as a G-rated substitute for its more vulgar three-word cousin?

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