A broader zeitgeist that happened in the last few years is that “scene-making shameless person lacking a certain emotional chunk of emotional range” got recoded as “genius contrarian” the way “wears black turtleneck” got recoded as “Steve Jobs level visionary.”
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Which is ironic, since Biden represents continuation of an imperial mode of US government but looks like Amtrak Joe, while Trump ran the show like a petty small town council but acted like an emperor
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Kamala Harris family is very Modern Family. They just need to add a gay couple in there to look like a nightmare to Hallmark channel.
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General thought: trad administrations are highly scaled systems with a necessary and meaningful distinction between backend and frontend. There is a minimum necessary theatricality to the front-end. It’s a UX metaphor. This reads as “fakeness” to libertarian-scale imaginations.
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Trump may have slapped his name on skyscrapers but fundamentally didn’t get scale and backends. He managed like a small wealth-management family office. His base wanted small-scale wysiwyg dynamics. National budgets managed like small family budgets etc. All UX, no backend.
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