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      "body": "I don't know. I think the Giddens from twenty or thirty years ago may have voted for Trump in a similar way that other Americans voted for him - as an act of protest. I also think he would have been disappointed in hindsight. \n\nYou're absolutely right about the inherent irony of Trump's use of the media and their use of him. In his use of the media, Trump is basically the equivalent of ISIS. Both of them know how ot use the media for their purposes and the media was happy to have them soar on the back of their wings up to a point.\n\nFor each of them, that point was different but for both it was a tipping point. Trump was anecdotal as a Republican primaries candidate and the media loved him. ISIS were a terrible phenomena but something happening halfway around the world.\n\nIt wasn't until Trump became a viable presidential candidate and Jihadist John started killing Americans that their media coverage changed, which caused a change in public opinion. This resulted in the stronger institutions of government starting to take notice. For ISIS, it was the military. For Trump, the judiciary.",
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      "body": "You make very good point that I have no argument with. It's true that there were \"bad\" politicians way before 1991. It's also probably true that Trump would have never won if it wasn't for a lot of things aligning in a way that set him up for the presidency.\n\nHowever, The media tends to focus on the scandalous and the simplistic. It's all true but what really contributed to Trump's rise in the polls to the point that he could even be considered a political candidate was not Russian ad campaigns on Facebook, the FBI, or the Supreme Court. It was growing public opinion that supported his claims that a change was necessary in Washington DC. Manay American found that message to resonate with their own beliefs, especially when made by an \"outsider\".\n\nAlso, consider that he still beat all of the other Republican candidates. That says something. He still got millions of Americans to vote for him and that says something too. \n\nIt's also similar to what is happening in Europe, which I think is rooted in a general lack of confidence that the public has for their politicians. \n\nA recent survey by The PEW, found that public trust in the government remains near historic lows. Only 18% of Americans today say they can trust the government in Washington to do what is right “just about always” (3%) or “most of the time” (15%).\n\n![screenshot-www.people-press.org-2018.02.06-12-51-19.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmZdRA4x91BPXRAc3FXe7yRkZEyeSjcLRUGPrevJh7VoEZ/screenshot-www.people-press.org-2018.02.06-12-51-19.png)\n\nWhile you may be right that, if we judge on merit, the politicians of old were no better than the politicians of new and vice versa. But, in the court of public perception there is a shift that is hard to ignore.",
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      "body": "It's been years since I read Giddens, but I always thought of him as left of center. And given that he was, among other things, an advisor to Blair, I sincerely doubt he would have \"voted for Trump.\" \n\nGiddens is also a supporter of international cooperation on climate change issues, which would put his politics at odds with Trump's. Furthermore, his \"third way\" is far too conciliatory a strategy for someone like Trump, who is divisiveness incarnate.\n\nYou touch on a number of interesting topics here. I assume your main point is not about Giddens being a prescient sociologist (which he is), but about the nexus between politics and technology and the idea that their co-evolution has led (perhaps inexorably) to Donald Trump, the celebrity president.\n\nI'm not a technological determinist, but I'll grant that this is a juicy topic to debate (and far more interesting than debating \"the social and cultural ramifications of dick jokes,\" which no sociologist I know has ever brought up). One point worth noting is that the revolution is not so much being televised as tweeted. TV is an older broadcast-media technology, which is different from the more peer-to-peer, interactive structure of the Internet and social networks like Twitter. \n\nThat distinction plays directly into a tactic Trump loves to use: characterizing most broadcast news outlets as purveyors of \"fake\" news and addressing his supporters directly through Twitter. This tactic both draws from and reinforces the right-wing populist ideology that underpins Trumpism. And it serves, symbolically, to suggest that the \"truths\" we are getting from Trump are themselves unmediated. Unfortunately, the \"revolution\" he's proposing is remarkably reactionary. I sincerely hope we'll survive it.\n\nFinally, I'd be careful about not making Giddens sound too postmodern. I'm fairly certain that despite the allure of social media and virtual spaces, he would argue that human beings are still, in fact, very mired (socio-economically) in the physical spaces we occupy. And although I don't know which of Giddens' writings you are referencing in your last section, I doubt he would regard today's terrorists as having \"style.\" Terrorism has always been waged on a symbolic front, too. And symbolism does not equal style.",
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      "body": "Are you familiar with the musical Hamilton? And, more importantly, the history behind it? Aaron Burr, America's 3rd Vice President who almost became the second President, spent his entire political career not taking any strong political stance. He relied on his eloquence, and charm, and on basically inventing active political campaigning. \n\nWe remember leaders with strong convictions better. Like them or not - and I have either a strong dislike or mixed feelings for everyone on your list except FDR - they stand out. \n\nAnd. sure, Trump is an edge case. But Warren G. Harding wasn't a gem, either. And his presidency was absolutely mired in controversy and corruption. And that's at the presidential level. On the local level? Corruption has always loomed large. The Godfather, in 1972, portrayed senators as working directly for the mob, because some DID.\n\nAnd who was a bigger celebrity in America following the revolutionary war than George Washington? He ended up being a great - if flawed - statesman, but he won the elections because he was good at fighting, as did Eisenhower, much later.\n\nThe tools of today are different, more immediate. But politicians were throwing verbal feces at each other in newspapers from the late 16th century onwards. \n\nI would argue that Ronald Reagen was a terrible president, who suffered from dementia for much of his presidency. He won his second term by a landslide and is still considered a political god on the right. Because he had charisma, and a soothing voice, and happened to be around when the USSR was collapsing. Never mind that he willfully chose to ignore the AIDS crisis because \"icky gays,\" or that his administration was doing shady deals with tyrants. \n\nAll of this is not to say that Donald Trump isn't a unique case. But there were very specific circumstances that lead to his win. \n\nIf the Supreme Court hadn't decided the Voting Rights Act wasn't really needed anymore? He would have probably lost.\n\nIf Russia hadn't undermined the elections through actual fake news? He would have probably lost.\n\nIf the FBI had released information about investigating his campaign when they released information about investigating Clinton's campaign? He would have probably lost.\n\nIf Comey hadn't sent that letter to Congress mere days before the elections? He would have probably lost.\n\nAnd with all of that? He still lost the popular vote by 3 million votes. \n\nSo, what I'm saying here is that there was a confluence of events, some of them (the FBI's actions in particular) massively affected by the consensus that he couldn't possibly win, that lead to Trump winning.",
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      "body": "Just to clarify, that's a quote from Giddens. I guess how I interpret it is that someone like Donald Trump couldn't have been considered for presidency prior to the consumerization of politics. Once the fine line between being a politician and being a celebrity is blurred; once the fine line between a presidential election and reality tv is blurred then politicians start being measured on popularity, and their popularity is  not necessarily dependent on their achievements. They become a commodity simply measured on how much it can sell, in this case, votes. Was that always the case? Maybe.\n\nI do think that this process has intensified over the years and I do think that it would be hard to compare the politicians of today with the likes of Churchill, FDR, Golda, Ben Gurion, Rabin, etc. They had an agenda and would not change it (too much) for more votes.\n\nNow, that being said, who am I to say that the politicians of then were better or more moral than current ones. It's all relevant and some may see current politicians as an improvement.  I will also agree that politicians were never liked and they always had their haters but \"the office\" or the political institution garnered more respect than it does today. That could be because the politicians are worse or just because we are more educated about what goes on behind the scenes...",
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      "body": "It's a very interesting and well done post. I will comment, however, that \"before 1991, like a generation or two back, politicians or statesmen were admired and their credibility and leadership was not put in doubt,\" is a false statement. The magical/cursed time when politicians weren't questioned, doubted, dragged through the mud? Never happened. Wasn't true in the old Greek democracy, wasn't true the second the USA and then France reinvented it.",
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In modern countries, the scientific and national institutions that symbolize the state are under attack, and their power is deteriorating rapidly largely thanks to technological advances enjoyed by the people of these countries. When the symbols that make up our governing bodies are under attack what person in their right mind would want to be president? Could this be the reason why there is no captain at the helm?\n\nhttp://33.media.tumblr.com/51f3109ca41f1b46248aa3009cb9357c/tumblr_njzlph8OFd1rrcri6o1_1280.gif\n\nAgain, Giddens wrote this back in 1991. The year the first website was introduced, early laptops were just coming out, and Linux kernel was the newest thing, and Blossom debuted on NBC.\n\nBut before 1991, like a generation or two back, politicians or statesmen were admired and their credibility and leadership was not put in doubt. Being a politician was something to aspire to. 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