Yeah, I suspect it's more nuanced than it seemed to me at the time. You say it wasn't seized upon by media etc, but perhaps it just wasn't by the media you (or

Yeah, I suspect it's more nuanced than it seemed to me at the time. You say it wasn't seized upon by media etc, but perhaps it just wasn't by the media you (or I) was consuming? The USA media I consumed - Seth Meyer, John Oliver, some reddit / imgur - tends towards the more thoughtful / empathetic / liberal demographics, but unarguably is a bubble of sorts. I suspect, but also have no hard data, that the younger generation, generally more 'connected' and exposed to more of this type of information, was instrumental in extracting that orange chap, and I speculate much of that motivation came from this vector. Though how much of that was pandemic-highlighting of poor and unfair health services vs other factors .. well, who knows. Exit polls only get you so far, assuming these kinds of questions were ever asked.