The Changing Face of “Authenticity” in Politics | The New Yorker
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What Donald Trump, Zohran Mamdani, and Graham Platner can tell us about the changing role of “authenticity” in politics.
Save this story Save this story In 1968, Janet Malcolm visited a new showroom for high-end furniture that was, she wrote, among “the most beautiful and interesting” in New York. The venue was designed by Warren Platner, an architect who himself designed furniture; Donald Trump would later acquire a set of his chairs, and sounded gratified when, during an interview in 2010, a reporter from the Times recognized them. Platner’s son, Bronson, went into law, in Maine; his son Graham studied at Hotchkiss, a tony boarding school in Connecticut, though he hated it, skipped classes, and was quickly kic
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