'The direct line between celebrity and political ascendance is altering the conventional dynamics of political power in anti-democratic ways,' writes HeatherGautney.
slow-jammed the news with Jimmy Fallon. Today, however, the direct line between celebrity and political ascendance is altering the conventional dynamics of political power in anti-democratic ways. JFK and Obama may have used pop culture to achieve political ends, but they still employed legal-rational means, and the tools of bureaucratic administration, to govern.
Recent history bears this out. A few years before Trump was elected, pollster Patrick Caddell conductedof Republicans' waning popularity and found an extraordinarily high level of discontent among voters and desires for"an outsider" to fix Washington.
Trump exploited these dynamics, playing up his celebrity and outsider status and appealing to Americans' distrust of the establishment and desires to be entertained. The many who have tried to delegitimize his power on rational grounds—citing his grifting, nonsensical claims, embellishing of wins, and distracting from failures—have ultimately failed, perhaps because his mass of supporters hold him to a different set of standards based on how they came to know him.
In this regard, the phenomenon of Trump and the celebrity-politician may be exposing some inconvenient truths about elite power and the culture industries operating on its behalf. Among them is the prospect that masses of people may be choosing emotional stimulation and entertainment over strivings for actual democratic power.
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