>fighting a political battle on grounds where there is no space for actual exchange of ideas but only for appeals to emotions and prejudices, personal attacks a

>fighting a political battle on grounds where there is no space for actual exchange of ideas but only for appeals to emotions and prejudices, personal attacks and name calling. The early US election I remember was Bush v Kerry 2004. If you used those exact same words to describe the campaign back then, I wouldn't have disputed it. Twitter did not even exist until 2006. Did the internet enable Donald Trump? Absolutely. It enabled him to go face to face with the likes of Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton, and beat them at their own dirty game.