If the likes of Oprah and Trump become the norm, it will have seemed obvious in hindsight that politics always was showbizz. Politician in democracies seem to

If the likes of Oprah and Trump become the norm, it will have seemed obvious in hindsight that politics always was showbizz. Politician in democracies seem to lose more from specific bad events they gain from good ones. This gives them an incentive to push responsibility away from themselves out to unelected officials (regulators, judges, cops) and non-government lobbies (big businesses, NGOs, public-sector unions). And this pushing has been progressing for decades and decades already. So by now, while politicians collectively could seize the reins of their own power, they don't actually have them in their hands. In such a world, the "job" of the politician is then engage with the public, putting on a show of attacking the system, while not having, or even desiring, the power to change it. Who better for that job than Trump and Oprah?