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- colin_s3
So we're 9 months in to the Trump administration, and my biggest fascination continues to be how the same surreal disconnection from reality that was his campaign has translated to his time in office. For as insane as Trump is, dude might actually be pretty keyed in to media operations.
The campaign did exactly what it needed to, in constantly breaking the conversation from repeating into a new bullet point headline. Any lull was met with some ridiculous outburst. Each tweet was breaking news.
But in office, his dynamic is obviously different, but he's adapted pretty damn well in terms of his methodology. Trump has managed to go from fucking up the entire newsmedia minute to minute to completely upending their operations. Trump campaigned on the fact that the media was broken, and since he won, every bit of news on him is also an admission of defeat, and you can see how uneasy everyone on screen is about this entire situation.
All of this exists on top of the real problem: politics. Washington is still going, barely, but right now the entire American government looks like a game of hot potato, with whoever gets left holding it will be the first in the gallows. Nobody is looking to lead, every 'leader' we have now has a shield for having no shame: the President doesn't, either. Callous remarks, blatant corruption, unending abuse of authority will be just the beginning for the precedent this administration has been able to set on disrupting the system to the advantage of the privileged few.
I think there's a large swath of America which does not understand the coming storm of the idea of a superpower system of governance that does not adhere to any sort of norm or standard. America doesn't just suddenly recover after Trump, providing we get that far.
- Partially agree, but I think it's more of a transition of "haha this fucking clown" to "shit we actually have to pay attention to this fucking clown".garbage