![]() You can see this phenomenon outside the United States too. “It’s so encouraging to see so many people just coming together in a spontaneous parade of patriotism,” Bobi Kreumberg, who attended a Trumptilla in Palm Beach, Florida, told a reporter from WPTV. They didn’t go to fancy colleges, and they detest the mainstream media. They are doing pretty well but see themselves as the common people, the regular Joes, the overlooked. They represent a new social phenomenon: the populist regatta. The men stood on the control decks projecting the sort of manly toughness you associate with steelworkers, even though these men were more likely to be real-estate agents. The women stood on the foredecks in their red, white, and blue bikinis, raising their Pabst Blue Ribbon tallboys to salute the patriots in nearby boats. They festooned their boats with flags-American flags, but also message flags: Don’t Tread on Me, No More Bullshit, images of Trump as Rambo. The participants gathered rowdily in great clusters. They didn’t have much going for them in their great battle against the privileged elite, but they did have one thing-their yachts.ĭuring the summer and fall of 2020, a series of boat parades-Trumptillas-cruised American waters in support of Donald Trump. But weekend after weekend-unbowed and undeterred-they rallied together. ![]() They were the outsiders, the scorned, the voiceless. T he dispossessed set out early in the mornings. This article was published online on August 2, 2021. ![]()
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