couchmonkey on 21 June 2019
When an interviewer asked Canadian comedian/political pundit Rick Mercer’s opinion on Trump he said (roughly) “He takes all the attention away from everything else, I wish we were talking more about Canadian politics.”
Trump is an attention magnet. People who understood were warning the media during the primaries: all he had to do was Tweet something “stupid” at 3:30 AM and the entire news cycle belonged to him for another day. Now apparently the premise of OT is wrong and Sanders has created similar rallies, good job Bernie; but don’t be surprised if the fella who made politics into an exciting circus finds a big audience anywhere his base lives.
