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the civilized world was pretty much universally aghast.
Arthur Schwartz, a Bannonite PR man, got into an altercation with the Hay-Adams bartender about switching the television from CNN to Fox,
it was Bannon’s belief that the more extreme the right-wing challenge appeared, the more likely the Democrats would field left-wing nutters even less electable than right-wing nutters.
Politics is a literal game. Every word must represent a strict view—or be so abstract as to be meaningless. This perceived necessity to render language as lifeless as possible helped undermine Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
By insisting that Trump merely refuses to conform or doesn’t care to conform, the media misses the far more novel and alarming point: that he can’t conform.
Fox News has exceeded the point of absurdity because it recognizes this is probably its last act.
Understanding Donald Trump, how this happened, what he means, and what he is, will be the intellectual and creative battleground of the next generation.
