The STATE of Politics
‘306. Landslide. Blowout. Historic.’ Kellyanne Conway victoriously proclaimed when Trump won the Presidential race in 2016. As results were confirmed last week that Trump is now on the receiving end of that exact same tally of electoral seats, Biden supporting satirists/activists, The Lincoln Project, couldn't help themselves jumping in on this historic tweet with ‘Agreed’.
That the recipient of the Twitter burn, Conway, was after all the inventor of ‘Alternative Facts’ from the White House, there is something about this exchange that exemplifies the state of 2020 politics. In a world of ever-reductive circles, this is as peak political debate as we can hope for these days.
Them V Us.
Polarised mass tribalism.
Was anyone expecting a peaceful transition?
As Trump goes down fighting everyone, including Fox News and his own lawyers who testified they had no evidence in court, will he take down democracy with him?
And has our own poundshop Trump in the UK already done the same? When Boris
