The second narrative posited that the meaning of Disco Demolition Night was only tangentially related to music, having more to do with the racism and homophobia of the participants. This view was forwarded most prominently by music critic Dave Marsh in Rolling Stone, who observed at the end of 1979 that “white males, eighteen to thirty-four, are the most likely to see disco as the product of homosexuals, blacks and [Latinos], and therefore they’re most likely to respond to appeals to wipe out such threats to their security.” You can see the parallels to Trump—at both Disco Demolition Night and
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