"Donald Trump got elected president, twice so far, because people have become so easily bored, and so desperate for constant stimulation, that the election of this subliterate carnival barker with the morals of a pimp and the intellect of a dull normal junior high school bully was sufficiently entertaining to them to entice them into making this fundamentally insane choice. Trump was entertaining to the voting public in the same way he was entertaining as the host of The Apprentice, which, crucially, allowed him to present himself to millions of television viewers as a 'successful businessman.' He was entertaining as the host of Wrestlemania, and as a constant gossip column item in New York in the 1980s, and in the pages of People magazine. He wasn’t, as so many of his voters emphasized when asked about why they were voting for him, 'a politician' – meaning, above all that he was amusing, rather than boring.
"We can only hope that, in the words of Neil Postman’s prophetic polemic on the degradation of knowledge in the information age, we are not now in the process of amusing ourselves to death." -- law professor Paul Campos, LGM, on the Malignant Fascist in general and his shambolic Operation Epic Epstein Fury address last night in particular.
(Image: our new favorite, on-point Venn poster, via @kuperart)
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