We have spent a fair amount of time talking about media bubbles since 2016 shocked the world in Britain and America. The basic idea is that we only talk with our like-minded partisans and shut out the messy fact that about half the people disagree with us on fundamental issues beyond mere policy. I mean, are you surprised that there is still a Flat Earth society? How can you be surprised by anything anymore?
Still, there is another bubble we wrap ourselves in as Americans. We are a people uniquely powerful in the world beyond our borders and uniquely ignorant of it, too. Are you curious how the president* is viewed from abroad? Take a listen to this analysis from a reporter from a country arguably as similar to us as any in the world. There is not a word that a fair person could argue with and it is as devastating a take down of the Marmalade Mussolini as you could imagine.
Make America Great Again went from a joke to a threat. It is now so painfully and pathetically ironic that it almost leaves me breathless.
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