This is also a historical event, Trump getting arrested. A little less interesting of one, for that matter, since COVID didn’t exactly match up to WWII in terms of national impact, nor did the public really care about a president in the last 30 years as much as they did about JFK.
Can you actually imagine someone running for president as Dem in 2073 using that picture? 2033, even? I’d be surprised (and disappointed) if the current system of government is still in place in 50 years.
When I was a bit younger, during the Bush era, I bought into people saying everything was historical and this was going to be the catalyst for some huge change in politics. The reality is more depressing, there’s just a constant stream of this kind of thing, and they just fades away and gets replaced in a couple weeks by the next thing. Since this is literally a mug shot of a president, yeah it’s a bit of a historic pic, but don’t get drawn into thinking it’s like The Symbolic Image That Will Define This Generation Of Politics. Although maybe 2016-2022 of U.S. politics to be fair, like if the news 30 years from now is going to show a montage of what happened in politics around now.
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This is also a historical event, Trump getting arrested. A little less interesting of one, for that matter, since COVID didn’t exactly match up to WWII in terms of national impact, nor did the public really care about a president in the last 30 years as much as they did about JFK.
Can you actually imagine someone running for president as Dem in 2073 using that picture? 2033, even? I’d be surprised (and disappointed) if the current system of government is still in place in 50 years.
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When I was a bit younger, during the Bush era, I bought into people saying everything was historical and this was going to be the catalyst for some huge change in politics. The reality is more depressing, there’s just a constant stream of this kind of thing, and they just fades away and gets replaced in a couple weeks by the next thing. Since this is literally a mug shot of a president, yeah it’s a bit of a historic pic, but don’t get drawn into thinking it’s like The Symbolic Image That Will Define This Generation Of Politics. Although maybe 2016-2022 of U.S. politics to be fair, like if the news 30 years from now is going to show a montage of what happened in politics around now.
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