Dictator Chic: From Covfefe and Parades to the Department of War
Introduction: The Age of the Unprecedented If you feel like you have been living through a ten year fever dream, you are not alone. We used to think the crazy peaked when the leader of the free world tried to redirect a hurricane with a Sharpie or suggested we look into the benefits of drinking bleach. We thought the peak was a press conference held at a landscaping company between a sex shop and a crematorium. We were wrong. The first term was the era of the Surreal, a time when policy was often secondary to the personality, and the chaos was delivered in 280 character bursts at 3:00 AM. It was a period defined by covfefe, paper towel tosses, and looking directly into solar eclipses. It felt like a reality TV show that had jumped the shark, but we were all stuck in the audience. Then came the second term: the era of the Radical.