Donald Trump feels like a turning point and I don't know for what. Roosevelt mastered radio politics and was bigger than the medium. Kennedy, ditto for television. Trump may have mastered something, maybe social-media or virtual-reality politics, getting a positive response because he was careless and seemed bigger than the new thing and adept.
Whatever, but he is bigger than his britches. We haven't elected a capitalist hero but an avatar and icon of selfishness and excess. And we have devalued ourselves and asserted our own, relative worthlessness and Trump knows this and is acting with a sense of impunity and he isn't even president yet. I think we've been fired as citizens and don't know it yet.
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