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Jared Yates Sexton
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The media is so hopelessly and cluelessly addicted to Donald Trump's spectacle that they wouldn't have tolerated him being taken down unless it was an equal or greater spectacle.
Democrats aren't going to do it, but if they want to end this crisis, if they want to address the walking, talking disaster of Donald Trump, they're going to have to get wild-eyed and loud. They'd have to turn this into a Michael Mann movie. I'm not kidding.
Pelosi and Democratic leadership don't understand the moment. At all. If they pushed for impeachment, if they pushed for hearings, the media would drown salivating. Turn the volume and heat up. Get out there and scream. Give them a new drug and they'll thank you for it.
Turn the Trump Crisis into a 5 day a week must-tune-in event. The Trump tweets would be certifiable. The pundits and programmers would lose their minds. Rebrand this thing. Come on. If we're going to commodify everything let's commodify EVERYTHING.
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Working on a book that explains how we came to this moment of dysfunction, chaos, and suffering. Some of the causes are becoming increasingly clear, and, for the first time, I'm starting to have some hope as to how we can change things and get moving in the right direction. 1/
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