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Jon Askonas: Politics is Downstream of Technology

From the New World

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The Politics of Television Is Not Working Anymore

The television ecosystem has become as we can eat and buy the Internet, even by Twitter. And so that you can't generate a single unified politics of television in the way you could from Reagan until Trump. I think one of the reasons why he succeeds in 2020 is precisely that he has this kind of anti anti memetic, almost symbol logical character like he can't be made into a television figure on TV.

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