1. In the wake of Trump's appearance on Fallon, I want to talk about the role of entertainment industry in enabling Trump's rise.
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2. Trump has been a media creation all along, a product of Page 6, the tabloids, and the over-heated New York Press.
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3. Since his financial troubles of the late 1980s & early 1990s, Trump's main business hasn't been real estate but branding
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4. Trump main business is playing a businessman. That's actually a sign of his shrewdness. NBC made him.
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5. Trump's most brilliant stroke is to realize in age of shrinking TV viewership, cable networks desperate for ratings his antics bring
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6. Desperate for his access, TV networks let him get away with murder. Will mention Joe Scarborough & CNN hiring Lewandowski.
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7. But in a racist society, entertainment industry has always been willing to exploit ethnic hatred for profit: i.e. blackface, sports, etc
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8. The specific tradition Trump grows out of is sports. Boxing & wrestling have long history of trading on ethnic tensions.
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9. I talk more about the entertainment industry racism enabling tradition that created Trump here:https://newrepublic.com/article/136321/divide-conquer …
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