This has been said before, but it is striking how much Trump resembles the "classical" demagogue--a figure who would have been intelligible to both the founders and the greeks/romans they drew on for inspiration.
"Talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity, may alone suffice to elevate a man to the first honors in a single State; but it will require other talents, and a different kind of merit, to establish him in the esteem and confidence of the whole Union"
it's not just being unable to contemplate communication media like television it is being unable to contemplate how that might alter society
but that's not really on them it's on the folks who worked hard to promote mass media technologies without understanding how it might impact society
as someone who was unabashedly pro-internet and involved from my earliest adulthood in promoting this communication media -- everything is roses when you start
it's the itinerant fisherman able to get the best price for his catch not violent movements enjoying frictionless organizing
Donald Trump's parents fucked this entire country up by abandoning him to that military school when he was 12. He's been a sociopath his entire life and should have been put in a mental institution (reminder he was born in 1946 so that was the only other option) to be treated when he was a teenager.
