ENTERTAINMENT
A particularly pertinent quote I saw yesterday involved the interview on CNN with Vice-President Harris and Time Walz. A commentator with AZCentral.com – a news site in the key swing state of Arizona – called the performance “too sane to be great TV”, an implicit comparison with Trump’s frequently ostentatious media appearances.
It reminded me of a phenomenon from 2016. So many people had become engrossed in so-called "Reality TV" and professional wrestling that they viewed the presidential election as a form of entertainment. What would happen in the White House would only hold value as entertainment. The results should have been predictable. The winner was the most engaging as a performer.
They loved it until over 400,000 people died of Covid-19.
