Are We Amusing Ourselves to Death?
Offline with Jon Favreau
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Is Trump a Game Show Host or a Twitter Personality?
So much of politics right now is about fandom more than anything else. It's about this almost visceral sense of whether, do I like a candidate or do I not? The historian Warren Sussman argues that once mass media came along, the mandate shifted to what he called personality. So charm and charisma and essentially the ability to put on a good show are alive in the way Americans relate to politics today.
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