Reality TV and Rearranging Reality
I have to admit that Trump is a real phenomenon. His presidency is reality TV. Really. He really could blow up the whole world!!! Will he? What is he doing? God help us all... The sickening drama... this is happening to us!! This is not TV, this is reality! Are we to believe he does not know exactly what he is doing? That he has not been an experienced reality star for years? Or that his backers don't know exactly what they are doing with this circus? He creates his character: Is he mad? Is he a fool? Is he a Nazi? What exact _kind_ of mental illness is he suffering from? Oh my God! Has a madman taken over the nuclear codes?!!??!! It is really the most astonishing thing I have ever seen. He takes away all pretense of following the protocols that diplomatic powerful world leaders are supposed to do and say; he does the opposite. And it is riveting. It is truly the Truman show come to life in a way that no matter where you are in the political spectrum, everyone is in a Ma...