Much like Cam Newton, Donald Trump is a person who people like talking about. They just do. Obviously.
Here’s my offering, and it’s not a political one.
One of the main building blocks in all the endless coverage of Trump is that he’s gaining building blocks. Gaining fans.
The story was: he’s getting popular. Then the story is he’s getting more popular, and then staying popular, and then more fans, and then a bigger audience, and more coverage, and then drawing thousands of people to speeches, and then has a following across age groups, and then across ethnicities, and then SO MANY PEOPLE LOVE THIS GUY.
That’s the main part of the his story.
It’s a story most artists would kill for…and the story most artists shoot for and cater to.
Flimsy.
Not irrelevant, but flimsy. Something which is flimsy needs support, substance.
So many artists base their whole story about how big they’re getting, it’s their measuring stick. Their popularity and their popularity’s growth ARE the story.
Popularity is a weak story. For both artists and presidential candidates.
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