I'm a little more optimistic. I don't think anything is ever irreparable.
Things have changed - ubiquitous social media, the reinforcement of echo chambers and how they demonize opposition, the anonymity of the Internet giving people cover to behave badly - these things are dragging down the quality of our discourse. In politics and elsewhere. I think Trump is probably at least as much "effect" of all that as he is "cause".
So I agree the world has changed irreversibly, but I don't expect future presidencies to look much like Trump when it comes to messaging. In fact I still think there is a chance that Trumpism will bring about a splintering of the repub party - which could have the effect of marginalizing a lot of what we now think might become a new normal.
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Posted: 12/04/2017 at 10:48AM