Bigger reasons for Trump’s success:
1. Born rich
2. Unbothered by most constraints (moral, ethical, intellectual, emotional, legal) that most people operate under
3. A media & political environment decades in the making that privileges his characteristics
1. Born rich
2. Unbothered by most constraints (moral, ethical, intellectual, emotional, legal) that most people operate under
3. A media & political environment decades in the making that privileges his characteristics
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1420457843740786689
RE: #3: I remember thinking at some point in 2015 that Trump was running the way you would run if you 1) believed the critiques of our media & political environment many of us had been making for years and 2) were completely without any kind of shame or inhibition.
someone pay me* to edit an anthology of mid-aughts media criticism & lefty blog posts that made clear the path we were on, and the dangers of an outcome much like Trump's presidency
* er ... someone else. this sounds like a lot of work.
* er ... someone else. this sounds like a lot of work.
(The title of this anthology would, of course, be What @digby56 Said)
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