Politics Today

A friend of mine who is a religious reader of this blog’s comment section and occasional commenter himself sent me this note about how the LGM community just doesn’t understand contemporary politics.

I’m not sure that the LGM commentariat is ever going to understand that Trump standing on stage swaying to music for 40 minutes is more interesting than anything Harris said or did. And the people want interesting.

The meme coin thing has them crying about corruption and grift and it’s the end of days. I bet a lot of people think it’s really fucking cool that Trump made $9 Billion yesterday (even if he didn’t really). One day, $9B. That’s a baller move.

I think that’s absolutely right. And if our politics going forward doesn’t start with these points, we aren’t going to win very much presidential elections. The NFL players doing Trump Dance stuff isn’t really about supporting Trump, although of course many of them do. It’s that it’s funny (to them at least) and people like funny, especially when it is repeated to them on endless Tik Tok clips and other 10 second meme videos.

But hey, if only the New York Times op-ed page was better, The People would understand and Do the Right Thing.