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Shamelessness for politicians forms a special kind of protection for them. Take Trump - if he had any shame then the revelation of multiple affairs would have b
by jonplackett 6y ago
Shamelessness for politicians forms a special kind of protection for them. Take Trump - if he had any shame then the revelation of multiple affairs would have been enough to bring him down. But by being so previously shameless it just runs off him.
The problem is this expectation for politicians to be perfect humans and never do or say, or have done or have said anything wrong. So they're all kind of emulating this robotic version of themselves that never has any opinion people can object to.
Shamelessness cut right through that and let Trump speak from his (very dark) heart, which is part of why people like him.
- loopz 6y agoThat is not on Trump, but on failure of the supporters and opponents around him.
- letitbeirie 6y ago> The problem is this expectation for politicians to be perfect humans and never do or say, or have done or have said anything wrong. So they're all kind of emulating this robotic version of themselves that never has any opinion people can object to. Discrediting this expectation was one of the biggest silver linings of Trump's win in 2016 I think. The pressure for politicians to be flawless turned our politics into a least-common-denominator farce where the smallest gaffe matters more than the biggest policy ideas. See: 2004 Democratic nomination.