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1. Karl says:

   January 9, 2021 - 9:21 am at 9:21 am

   Several remarkable things, so I will remark.

   Trump if nothing else (or if you prefer, above all) was supposed to be a master of PR, of image, of electronic communications. Unless he has some extraordinary tricks up his sleeves it turns out that his media thinking was too narrow. He could speak to friendly crowds. He did Twitter (though Melania reportedly urged him early on to cut back). I suppose his contentious press conferences worked.

   I thought early on however it should have been obvious to him to have some sort of TV channel, whether a private one financed by friendly private interests, or a White House channel. Bannon, who reportedly tried to get him to do routine fireside chats, may have had the same idea. If the media is hostile, you have to control it, or at least some of it, rather than just complain!

   However, as some people kept commenting, Trump seemed never to get the idea that he was president. Instead he just tweeted, Melania and Bannon’s advice notwithstanding.

   There are the cynical theories that I think are unlikely but are hard to disprove, that he was just doing kayfabe than, and is just playing a role now.

   • Karl says:

     January 9, 2021 - 9:25 am at 9:25 am

     I posted comments a couple of days ago from a far-left site I find useful to look at, though I don’t necessarily like it. One of the comments was that it certainly sends a message to the general population that if the president can be censored it can happen to anyone.

     There is a comment there today from someone saying that if those on the “left”, fake left etc are gloating about the censorship of Trump and his allies today they should be thinking about the famous “first they came for the…

     Dialogue is good.