This Poisonous Cult of Personality

Donald Trump’s election last year exposed an insidious politics of celebrity, one in which a redemptive personality is projected high above the slow toil of political parties and movements. This may be hard to admit but the path to such a presidency of spectacle and vicarious participation was paved by the previous occupant of the White House. By Pankaj Mishra.
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