The Reality Show President

Agustus 04, 2017

People don't sympathise Trump because they don't sympathise Reality Television.


I receive got noted fourth dimension together with fourth dimension ane time to a greater extent than that Reality Television isn't real.  And many others receive got documented on YouTube together with elsewhere how it is created.   You may non receive got a script amongst lines together with administration , but you lot receive got suggestions together with a crude oil outline.  You video your actors (and they are actors) for hours together with hours together with and thus inwards editing , using strategic cutaways , mood music , together with snippets of conversations , create the flush draw you lot want.

The media is losing its collective require heed over Trump - that is except Fox News.   Trump promises to salve jobs at Carrier - together with the jobs larn away anyway.   And the number of jobs is sad to start out with.  Why is a President worried nigh 700 jobs at factory?   He promises to create novel coal jobs together with claims tens of thousands are "put dorsum to work" inwards coal mines (what a treat!) when inwards fact , few , if whatsoever jobs receive got been created.   He claims that "clean coal" technology scientific discipline volition salve coal , inwards an era of dirt-cheap natural gas.   And inwards Mississippi , Southern Company decides to toss inwards the towel amongst "clean coal" every bit the technology scientific discipline simply doesn't work together with the found is converted to natural gas. 

But Trump continues amongst his Pepe-the-Frog shit-eating grin.  He doesn't seem bothered past times the fact that the facts contradict almost everything he says or tweets.  Is he delusional?  Crazy?  Or just a reality tv set star?

Trump may endure smarter than he appears , or at to the lowest degree to a greater extent than clever.   He doesn't genuinely attention nigh the 700 votes he'll larn from Carrier employees (and probable lose , when their jobs larn away).   What the rest of his supporters remember is that he "cared nigh the petty man" together with "saved jobs" fifty-fifty if the jobs weren't saved.   These are people getting their "facts" from Inforwars , non the New York Times.   So they believe that large coal is dorsum on rail , together with Carrier is employing thousands to a greater extent than inwards Indiana , together with Ford is edifice its novel Focus inwards Detroit. 

With reality tv set , perception is the commutation , non reality.

In the Tee-Vee present , The Apprentice , people didn't genuinely work every bit an apprentice to Donald J. Trump.  They didn't "create a novel hamburger" for Burger King.   If you lot believe this , you lot are a dolt.   What they did was larn Burger King to sponsor the programme , together with and thus accept a production that Burger King had already developed (or developed for the show) together with and thus faked upwards a "contest" to receive got the "apprentices" seem to invent it.

But the plebes swallow this shit up.  They all desire to encounter the cease purpose of the programme where , inwards a conference room to the melody of dramatic music , Trump "fires" someone.   Of class it is all fake.  I hateful , Celebrity Apprentice?   You genuinely mean value Jay-Z is going to operate every twenty-four threescore minutes catamenia at Trump Tower every bit Donald's butt-boy?

These are the form of people who vote for Trump - people of depression intellect who mean value reality tv set is existent , or that American businesses are similar The Jetsons , where someone gets "fired!" every week.  The reality of American draw of piece of work organisation is that if you lot fired everyone who atomic number 82 a projection that was unsuccessful , you'd burn your entire staff every year together with receive got a horrendous turnover rate.   Not all projects succeed , that is a given.  Which is why query is thus expensive.  But together with thus ane time to a greater extent than , the projects together with query on The Apprentice are all simulated together with the outcomes predetermined anyway.

This is what Trump is selling - The Reality Presidency.   And his fans swallow it up.  He tweets outrageous things together with says fifty-fifty to a greater extent than outrageous things - together with people sit down on the border of their spot to encounter what outrageous affair he says next.   And the folks who hate Trump scout twice every bit much every bit those who similar him.

But dissimilar tv set , ratings don't count for much inwards a Presidency.   But ane time to a greater extent than , peradventure that is where his existent genius lies.   He was exclusively days into his Presidency when he formed his re-election campaign.   Trump knows where the existent battle ahead lies , non inwards legislative or executive branch "accomplishments" but inwards selling a narrative to his amount base of operations that he is "getting things done" together with "saving jobs for petty people" fifty-fifty every bit he knows it isn't true.

In a agency , it is thus beautiful how this is constructed.  He's reduced the Presidency to its essential amount - all appearance together with no existent action.   He is , to some extent , like the Queen of England - cutting the ribbon at a novel Tesco , but non genuinely controlling the government.

And that is what most people desire out of a President.   Not policy wonkism or carefully idea out unusual policy.  They desire a President who speaks out nigh issues that are of import to them.  Who says things that staid politicians shy away from.   Whether or non this accomplishes anything is genuinely secondary , what people desire to hear is that the President is thinking of them.

And peradventure in that place is precedent for this.   Teddy Roosevelt said that the Presidency was a "Bully Pulpit" together with he used his spot to rail against corruption together with the trusts.   And people ate it upwards , fifty-fifty if his progressive agenda didn't larn every bit good far - together with his hand-picked successor unraveled much of it.  He was a populist President , together with ane that many folks idea mightiness endure a combat reckless.

Another Roosevelt used a similar technique to his advantage.   Franklin Roosevelt for sure won the hearts together with minds of many folks during the Great Depression past times talking nigh their problems , fifty-fifty if he came from the same wealthy patrician identify unit of measurement every bit his distant cousin.   Many "New Deal" programs were subsequently invalidated past times the courts , together with many historians together with economists fence the existent upshot of things similar the "National Recovery Act" inwards turning exactly about the economy.   The squall for is - together with was - he was a populist.  Herbert Hoover didn't engage the troubled working shape together with showed that he cared nigh their plight , but was standoffish together with talked nigh economical policy every bit if it didn't touching on existent people.

I am non comparison Trump to the 2 Roosevelts , of course.  Even Teddy was far , far smarter than the Donald.  But if you lot read his biography , Teddy was , inwards purpose , a "reality" star , traipsing off to Montana inwards his Abercrombie together with Fitch dudewear , trying to remake himself every bit a cowboy , rather than the fop he was known as.   Teddy Roosevelt built a lawn tennis courtroom behind the White House , but famously remarked that he would never let a lensman to accept his photograph belongings a lawn tennis vibrations , but rather belongings a gun.   He knew nigh how to groom a populace image.

President Trump isn't nearly every bit smart , of course.   But he knows how to groom a populace icon , every bit indeed , much of his life has been sent selling himself every bit a "brand" to other people , specially inwards recent years , where his vaunted existent estate deals amount to petty to a greater extent than than branding arrangements.

The media is getting it all incorrect , if they mean value they tin debunk Trump amongst "the truth".  His supporters don't attention nigh the truth , they attention nigh appearances.   And their perception of the truth is shaped non past times witty editorials inwards the Huffington Post , The New York Times , or The Washington Post , which largely larn unread past times the masses of his supporters.    They are getting their "truth" from shadowy conspiracy theory websites , Alex Jones , together with Fox News.   And really probable , inwards 4 years , they volition vote ane time to a greater extent than for Donald Trump.

And he mightiness win , if the Democrats position upwards a "progressive" candidate similar Elizabeth Warren , who past times all accounts is a squeamish together with sincere mortal , but doesn't stand upwards a snowball's conduct chances inwards hell of winning inwards United States of America that count.

And given that the Democrats seem to pass an awful lot of fourth dimension these days cow-towing to Bernie Sanders , who isn't even  a Democrat , I suspect nosotros may encounter 8 years of Donald Trump.   Not because he volition win , but because the Democrats volition lose.

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