Bernie Sanders at Biden's inauguration
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Žižek notes that Bernie Sanders 'stole the show' at Biden's inauguration just by sitting there with his gloves, while Trump's shooting photo never became legendary, meaning millions sensed the inauguration was a fake return to normalcy.
≤2000talks it is told in, per year2026
As told 14
“democratic inauguration of biden was a fake. they didn't really confront the danger of trump”
“Who stole the show? Bernie Sanders by doing what? Nothing, just sitting there with his famous gloves and so on.”9:04 "Trump is more Stalinist than Stalin himself" | Slavoj Žižek & Owen Jones (Part 1)pub. 2025-07-26 · 18:26
“Biden's inauguration. Who stole the show? Bernie Sanders sitting there alone with his gloves woolen gloves”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
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populated by
Joe Biden10Franklin Delano Roosevelt3Alexandra Kollontai2Ami Ayalon3Laura Kipnis2Yuri Andropov2Abraham Lincoln3Muriel Gardiner2
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Every retelling 14
1:04:19 Slavoj Zizek, Nadya Tolokonnikova and Paul Holdengraber / Los Angeles, 28 October 20252025-10-28 · 1:42:20
Žižek notes that Bernie Sanders 'stole the show' at Biden's inauguration just by sitting there with his gloves, while Trump's shooting photo never became legendary, meaning millions sensed the inauguration was a fake return to normalcy., illustrating charismatic leadership,ideology
9:04 "Trump is more Stalinist than Stalin himself" | Slavoj Žižek & Owen Jones (Part 1)pub. 2025-07-26 · 18:26
Žižek highlights Bernie Sanders sitting silently with his famous gloves at Biden's inauguration as a symbolic act that revealed the public's deep dissatisfaction with the political spectacle, showing that ordinary people sensed something was wrong., illustrating ideology,everyday-life
Bernie Sanders sat alone in the crowd at Biden's inauguration wearing woolen gloves, stealing the show and signaling a deep dissatisfaction with the 'false' Biden spectacle., illustrating ideology,everyday-life
19:32 Slavoj Žižek Visits Riot Studio to Discuss Faith, AI, Christianity, Love, and What Can Save Uspub. 2025-11-05 · 1:10:25
Bernie Sanders' presence at Biden's inauguration became an 'authentic icon' that stole the show, demonstrating the power of symbolic gestures over political program., illustrating authentic icon
The iconic image of Bernie Sanders sitting alone in a corner at Trump's inauguration, wearing mittens, overshadowed all the speeches and poetry, for Žižek this defines the era better than any abstract political statement., illustrating Bernie Sanders' approach,class politics vs. spectacle,political symbolism
At Biden's inauguration Bernie Sanders sat apart, embodying, for Žižek, the millions who sensed something was wrong with the nostalgic 'return to normal' spectacle., illustrating Biden's liberal-democratic nostalgia,populism's legitimate grievance