I mast be overly naive here, but if things go well in November, one reason i would be hopeful is that the unified national media environment that Trump became a celebrity in is gone. I don't think in any foreseeable future we'll have a situation where someone good at celebrity and fraud will be able to use a show likeThe Apprentice to build a false narrative of broad-based business acumen.
Obviously we will still have billionaires that combine some genuine skill and survivorship bias, but i think celebrity culture is a difficult to replicate part of Trump's rise. (If the assassination attempt has succeeded, that wouldn't hold, as martyrdom has its own set of dynamics not to mention the larger terrible implications of political violence.)
The river is crossed and we're not going back to normal. But his would be a difficult model to reproduce.
I mast be overly naive here, but if things go well in November, one reason i would be hopeful is that the unified national media environment that Trump became a celebrity in is gone. I don't think in any foreseeable future we'll have a situation where someone good at celebrity and fraud will be able to use a show likeThe Apprentice to build a false narrative of broad-based business acumen.
Obviously we will still have billionaires that combine some genuine skill and survivorship bias, but i think celebrity culture is a difficult to replicate part of Trump's rise. (If the assassination attempt has succeeded, that wouldn't hold, as martyrdom has its own set of dynamics not to mention the larger terrible implications of political violence.)
The river is crossed and we're not going back to normal. But his would be a difficult model to reproduce.
Just checking in to say I saw this when posted and I’m thinking hard about it