Lessons from the Trump Era

The Rich Are Not Our Friends

My slow realization that it’s all theater

Mike B.
8 min readJan 5, 2021

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Melissa McCarthy on Saturday Night Live (NBC), 2/4/17

The 2016 election was the first Presidential election I was old enough to vote in, and throughout that period I found myself caring a lot about what late night comedians had to say about politics. It’s not that I wanted them to tell me what to think; rather, I truly believed…

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