W.W.E. the People

http://harpers.org/archive/2017/08/sons-and-daughters/
Publisher:  Harper's Magazine
Year Published:  2017
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX22986

An excerpt from Naomi Klein's book "No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need", published by Haymarket Books.

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Trump didn't create the problem - he exploited it. And because he understood the conventions of fake reality better than anyone, he took the game to a new level. He didn't just bring the conventions of reality TV to electoral politics - he mashed them up with another blockbuster entertainment genre also based on cartoonsihly fake performances of reality: professional wrestling.