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Being deplorable is the modus operandi of social media | Nancy Jo Sales

An Instagram post by the wife of a government official – who bragged about her designer clothes – went viral. But such posts are standard issue on the internet
‘It was standard-issue social media braggadocio.’ Photograph: Yuri Gripas/Reuters

If you were casting a Bravo reality series about superficial, luxury-brand-obsessed Washington women, you wouldn’t have to look much farther than Louise Linton, the wife of the US treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin. (Oh, but wait, such a reality series – Real Housewives of DCalready aired, cancelled in 2010.)

On Monday, Linton exhibited her talent for playing true to type by posting an Instagram picture of herself disembarking from a US Air Force jet with

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