Anti-establishment protest can be expressed through absurdist comedy and electoral jokes

Evidence

I cannot overemphasize how genuinely funny all of this was. His target was clear, and his aim—perfect. He was calling the system absurd and corrupt, saying that an idiot from television would do a better job than the people already in Congress. Voting for Tiririca was a way to give the finger to the political establishment. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 180

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Brazilian voters used vote-for-a-clown jokes to signal disgust with politics — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 178; Anonymous’s viral protest demands addressed elite politics, not economic justice — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 432; Anti-establishment protest can break out even within formally conservative parties — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 592 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Anti-establishment protest can break out even within formally conservative parties #expands (0.82) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 592
• Critical theory reads ironic humor as pseudo-rebellion that masks conventionality. #qualifies (0.78) — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 665