re: #341 sagehen

NYC looks like a big city; it’s really 1000 small towns superimposed on each other. And the “national media/network headquarters” small town thought they knew him. The sorts of things he said at rallies… he didn’t talk that way at cocktail parties. He was a guy with pretty good TV ratings, at all the parties, on page six on a regular basis, his books sold pretty well, his name was plastered on buildings all over town, he was a cultural phenomenon…they just didn’t judge him by the standards they’d bring to bear on somebody they knew as “political figure”.

they didnt even judge him by the standards of the job
- that everyone else who ever applied/ran for it got judged by
- including all those who ran in 2016