Jon Askonas: Politics is Downstream of Technology
From the New World
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Democracy, Democracy and Television, Right?
I think what happens is basically American. How to make it becomes much more complex at the regulation. And frankly, much more out of the hands of any one legislator or executive branch. Part of the way that that's made up for is through the generate creation of a kind of symbolic politics that occurs on television. That doesn't have a one to one relationship with what's actually going on in government. I think you see that from kind of between Reagan until Trump, and I think it's because they're really great guys totally broken down in the Biden administration.
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