I was one of those people who watched Donald Trump in the 1980s/1990s....on talk-shows (Larry King, Oprah, Phil Donahue, etc). By 2015, when he started talking about a campaign.....there were four blunt 'truths'....Trump was more of a TV reality guy than a politician....Trump seemed to know more about economics or finance than every member of the House/Senate....Trump was this rare breed of character that you could pose a thousand questions to, and get a response.....and finally, Trump was basically a 1980s Democrat in a suit and projected himself as Republican in character.
So....here's the odd thing....there's at least five TV networks who burned through their trust to take down Trump....failing. In the case of CBS and 60 Minutes....they lost a fair amount of their audience.
What Trump projects? I'd say he's become this mythical creation....Odysseus, Homer, Neo (from Matrix), Buffy the Vampire slayer, James Bond, Beowulf, Jean Valjean (redeemed hero of Les Misérables), Aslan (the Lion savior in The Chronicles of Narnia), Tarzan, and Perseus (the Greek hero who killed Medusa)....all bundled up and running a daily 'stage-show'.
Trying to equate Kamala Harris at Trump's level? It was never possible.
The fact that everything seems to be a staged theatrical show now? Well...yeah, that does come up in my mind. If the Democrats had a version of Trump....then they'd launch him right now...but the best they can stage is Governor Newsom of California. On my showman index (1-to-10)....he can barely scratch a '5'.
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