Why Trump? (Information and Links)

“The clearest way to reconcile the two perspectives is to understand how Obama’s presidency, and all that it accomplished, could have led to the election of Trump.  I think there are basically two tweet-length explanations:
1.  America elected a black man president, and about half the country proceeded to lose its goddamn mind.
2. The white working class realized that the American dream is a sham.  Then a con artist promised to restore it, and they bought the con.”

Hayes, Christopher. “The Institutionalist.” The Nation, 2/9 Jan. 2017, pp. 1–2.

Media

• News Coverage of the 2016 General Election by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy

• Study: Clinton-Trump coverage was a feast of false equivalency by the Washington Post

• VIDEO: How False Equivalence Ruins Trump-Clinton News Coverage by MediaMatters.org

• Welcome to the maddening world of false equivalence journalism (from a climate reporter who knows) by Fusion.net

• Why Trump Won’t Serve His First Full Term from the Huffington Post

• Fighting for the Good Life in Trumplandia from Utne Blog

• The Evolutionary Mismatch Between Politics and Neuroscience from Utne Reader

• Genius Browser Extension Turns Donald Trump’s Tweets Into Childish Scribbles

• Michael Moore Covers Trump on the Huffington Post
• Jimmy Fallon Does Trump (Tonight Show) Videos
• Saturday Night Live (SNL) Videos
  • Donald Trump Sketches (Alec Baldwin)
  • Season 42
• The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

  • PRESIDENT TRUMP: AMERICA’S XENOPHOBIC OLD GRANDPA

  • Donald Trump Episodes