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Middle has its moment as Biden pitches plans: The Note © Alex Brandon/AP President Joe Biden speaks about his plan to combat the coronavirus pandemic in the State Dinning Room of the White House, Jan. 21, 2021, in Washington. It will always be interesting to consider where Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell might land though that might not be hard to predict. It will always be instructive to watch the progressives react to President Joe Biden though that might not be hard to see coming, either. © Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images President Joe Biden speaks about the COVID-19 response as US Vice President Kamala Harris looks on before signing executive orders in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., Jan. 21, 2021.
The Social Dilemma.
Here are three observations about culture and politics as viewed through the prism of the last days of the Trump administration and the first days of the Biden one.
OBSERVATION #1: The Influencer Economy Has Produced a Base of Reaction
“Everyone is making media at all times,” CNN reporter Elle Reeve reported of January 6 capital siege. “It’s crazy. It’s like, ‘Were you there if you didn’t livestream it?’ And they’re all hoping for that viral moment that will give them more clout on social media.”
The commitment to posting even though this particular “viral moment” would ultimately provide authorities ways to track down the rioters shows the degree to which politics has been recoded, in the Trump Galaxy Brain, as some kind of media project. “Politics is downstream from culture,” Andrew Breitbart, founder of the eponymous hard-right web outlet, once said.
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