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Originally Posted by WhawhaWhat
Yeah but it got him in the White House.
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Originally Posted by BigBeauford
Holy Shit, post of the year.
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To the extent this is relevant to the 2016 election, even then I'm not sure what it establishes.
It would seem to argue that Trump won the election, at least in part, by taking the current rhetorical landscape and using it to his own advantage.
That part of why Colbert/Oliver/Bee/Stewart etc are so traumatized by the past year is that he did their gig better and actually accomplished something with it.
Of all the criticism of Trump, asserting that he defended his good ideas by shortchanging the arguments of the opposition is a relatively novel one.
Nevertheless, not sure how turning my criticism of the 'late night method' of rhetoric onto Trump says anything about anything, except the state of the populace regarding how they prefer their debates.