For years, Donald Trump has leaned on all-caps social media posts to grab attention online.
His Truth Social feed often reads like a never-ending shouting match. However, that changed after Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) began mocking the president’s style in dozens of posts interspersed among his regular missives.
This has been going on for the better part of a week, and seems to have gotten to Trump’s ego, as his latest Truth Social posts aren’t in his classic all-caps style.
He’s not, he wisecracks about it here and there to farm a little engagement, but I don’t think anyone expects him to suddenly become the wiley dealmaker and negotiator between members of the parties he despises. A lot of people on the left have the same exact celebrity infatuation as MAGA do, it just takes a slightly different form. Liberal audiences are engaged and laugh at thoughtful irony and scathing shower-arguments delivered to captive audiences. The right laughs at MAN FALL DOWN GO BOOM.
Even if he were suddenly to pull off his mask and show that he has electability (political capital), he would be running on a liberal platform not much different than establishment dems have been doing for years because they have the same base: liberals. I mean, honestly a lame-duck Stewart administration would be preferable over literally everything we are looking at on the horizon, but I do think we can do a lot better than more celebrity worship.
Stewart’s rhetoric is cathartic to libs and leftists frustrated with the right, but he’s never been a champion of socialism or a radical, it’s just jokes. He admits this, it’s his power and strength and putting him in the seat of power would actually take that strength away.