I put this in the Trump thread:
"It is the time of the demagogue.
Politicians have become both masters of, and servants of the media.
Trump chose the mastery of, rather than being the servant to, the media.
He created a product out of himself that appealed to popular desires and prejudices, rather than using rational argument and having detailed plans. It is exactly the same strategy as executed by Farage and the Leave campaign.
"You want change? I can give you change. Make America great again, big deals, great again"
If it was a political drama on TV it would have been entertaining, but these demagogues are playing with real lives, real businesses, real people - yet they don't have a bloody clue how to fix the problems they've used to gain power.
Yes, the political establishment created the conditions to allow such demagogy to occur, but as with Brexit, to see this as some form of victory for the poor, the sick, the needy, the uneducated, the elderly, and others of need is pure fantasy."