Meacham: Trump Thinks in Reality Show Week to Week Terms But This Isn’t Reality Show, It’s Reality

‘He basically thinks in reality show week-to-week terms, that people will just tune in to the next episode’

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MEACHAM: "He’s assuming that the rest of us or at least a significant number of the rest of us are either too slow or too perverse to remember it as well. And because he doesn’t take, it seems to me, the process seriously, he doesn’t take the conventions of his office seriously, he doesn’t take the world order for which those men going across in those landing craft today in 1944 were fighting. They were fighting against totalitarianism, they were fighting against cults of personality, they were fighting against authoritarianism and that created a world order that is now embodied in article 5 that is now under the gravest assault it’s been in half a century. I think it’s because he basically thinks in reality show week-to-week terms, that people will just tune in to the next episode. But this isn’t a reality show. This is actually reality.”

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