Jim Fields

Walter Russell Mead (@wrmead) on Donald Trump: "He's discovered one of the secrets of power in the contemporary world, which is he's managed to turn fame into power, drama into power, and to do it in ways that leave him completely free to act. If you lie enough, the marginal cost of your 10,000th lie is nothing, while the marginal cost of your first, second, or third lie is very high. So all of the normal constraints on political figures, reputational and so on, he does not pay." "The Donald Trump show is the most compelling entertainment, infotainment spectacle that humanity has ever seen. Since the dawn of time, no living human being has occupied the amount of bandwidth of the human race that Donald Trump does. And he sees that as the key to his unique power. He is a major historic figure who has developed a new understanding of how power works in an era of mass communications and social media, and the rest of us are just trying to deal with it."