Die Amis wollten einen Trash-TV-Präsidenten, und nun haben sie ihn. Auf NBC News gefunden (via Flipboard) -> Here’s the overlooked dynamic in Alabama — the enthusiasm gap:
“People close to him estimate that Mr. Trump spends at least four hours a day, and sometimes as much as twice that, in front of a television, sometimes with the volume muted, marinating in the no-holds-barred wars of cable news and eager to fire back.”
Richard Rorty ist ein amerikanischer Philosoph. In seinem 1998 erschienenen Buch Achieving our country, sagte er vorher, dass die amerikanische Arbeiterklasse, lange ignoriert und marginalisiert, sich wieder melden wird. Etwas wird kaputt gehen, und dann passiert folgendes:
The nonsuburban electorate will decide that the system has failed and start looking around for a strongman to vote for—someone willing to assure them that, once he is elected, the smug bureaucrats, tricky lawyers, overpaid bond salesmen, and postmodernist professors will no longer be calling the shots. . . . One thing that is very likely to happen is that the gains made in the past forty years by black and brown Americans, and by homosexuals, will be wiped out. Jocular contempt for women will come back into fashion. . . . All the resentment which badly educated Americans feel about having their manners dictated to them by college graduates will find an outlet.