Alison Jackson’s pre-election photographs of Donald Trump’s “private moments” utilize a look-alike to envision Trump in a number of compromising positions. In ways that exceed the artist’s intention, the photographs’ play of the recognition of misrecognition fosters “ugly feelings” of ressentiment that might enable resistance not only to Trump but also to reactionary Republicans and neoliberal Democrats.

In 1949, after Paul Robeson—athlete, actor, singer, and anti-racist Leftist—stated that it would be “unthinkable” for blacks to fight a war against the Soviet Union, he was threatened by mobs, deprived of his US passport, denied work, hounded by the FBI, and made to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee.