Are there any books written about the Trump phenomenon and the culture which made it possible?
I know it's a little early for an in-depth analysis to emerge, but I'm interested in how he was able to control the media so easily.
Possibly this one:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28695425-strangers-in-their-own-land
Hadrian reviewed it well and I haven't been disappointed with his stuff yet: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1754011531?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1
>>8698065
Anything about populism and a consumerist anti-intellectual culture
The Decline of the West
>>8698079
Could you be a little more specific?
he says it in his own book. donald trump the art of the deal the media are so gulible they'll just run anything that is remotely sensational. So he always has something sensational to say
>>8698065
You mean, a little too late for in-depth analysis
>>8698065My MOTHERFUUUUUUUUUUCKIIIIIIING Diary DEEEEEEESUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
>>8698105
post excerpt
>>8698105
classic :)
I just finished reading white trash which explains some of the roots of the current backlash. It's worth checking out -- form your own conclusions.
https://www.amazon.com/White-Trash-400-Year-History-America/dp/0670785970
>>8698065
If you read 1984, why do you still support Shillary?
>>8698118
this has got to be ironic
>inb4 autistic rant
>>8698118
I just read The Iliad, I'm definitely not voting Hillary.
>I'm interested in how he was able to control the media so easily.
masterfully manipulating infowars with anti-establishment talk?
>>8698065
>>8698118
/lit/ FOLKS got hypnotized by the media - one of the things they try to attribute to trump is anti-intellectualism and /lit/ goers ego could not survive being associated with a person who cnn overtly called stupid
>>8698118
>anyone who dislikes Trump MUST work for CTR
The Prince (i.e. The only political book worth a shit)
Machiavelli and Thucydides > All
Realpolitik > Centuries of retarded idealism
>Thucydides and perhaps Machiavelli’s Principe are most closely related to me by the unconditional will not to gull oneself and to see reason in reality—not in “reason,” still less in “morality.” - Kneechuh
>>8698065
find literature about Berlusconi
>>8698065
>trump controls the media
I don't believe anyone can possibly be THIS bluepilled. Literally all the mainstream media is against Trump
>>8698160
This. /lit/ is filled with brainwashed pseuds
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