New York Magazine wanted to avenge Trump’s victory by trying to ridicule his voters, but it hasn’t worked out well. It’s like when the wolf hatches a plan to eat the little bird in the old Disney cartoons. You know the episode will end with the wolf toothless and bandaged from top to bottom, and the little birdie singing happily in its tree. New York Magazine has ended up toothless and bandaged, and the little trump birds are still dancing.

To deliver on the cartoon they had previously designed in the newsroom, they sent their journalist Brock Colyar to cover Trump’s victory weekend parties, and the Power 30 Awards, where they paid tribute to the influencers who supported the Republican’s race. The result is “The Cruel Kids’ Table” and it works better as an LSD science fiction tale than as a journalistic chronicle.
Colyar is a gender studies journalist, whatever that is, obsessed with feminism, and who defines himself as non-binary; no one has explained to him that usurping women’s biological space is not precisely feminist but quite the opposite. And, although his banner is ostensibly academic, he often covers parties. Everything about him is confusing and contradictory. Including the result of his bombshell report. He had memorized from home that he was supposed to present right-wing influencers as a herd of supremacists and, since that’s not what he found, he simply omitted even the small detail that the organizer was the brilliant CJ Pearson, a smart guy, blacker than Kamala Harris’s future, along with the beautiful Raquel Debono.
Colyar planned to make a total caricature of the Trumpers. He wanted them all white, alpha males, rosary in hand, bored, and joking about beating up homosexuals. The problem is that he found a party full of beautiful, young people, drinking and dancing happily, giving off all the good vibes in the world. Normal people doing something exceptional: having a good time. Heterogeneous people, which I like better than the word diverse.
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