This is the attention economy. The politics of personality.
Trump, Farage, Polanski, Mamdani. Hate them or love them, their ability to dominate the narrative and social media is winning out over traditional means.
Trump’s particular approach is, of course, the most egregious. By saturating the market to the nth degree, it’s hard to even remember what happened last week. Let alone care about it.
I think this is the problem facing more traditional media. Younger audiences have grown up with this as the norm. Fake news. A brutal job market. Housing…
