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No Bottom in Sight: Trump, Vance, and the Campaign of Absurdity
What started as a surreal reality show featuring Donald Trump as an improbable political contender has now morphed into a full-blown carnival. If you thought it couldn’t get worse, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance is working to prove us wrong.
5 min readSep 25, 2024
No Bottom in Sight: Trump, Vance, and the Campaign of Absurdity
The political absurdity we’ve witnessed in the past few years seems to have no end in sight.
What started as a surreal reality show featuring Donald Trump as an improbable political contender has now morphed into a full-blown carnival, where facts are irrelevant, conspiracies are mainstream, and crass behavior is celebrated.
And if you thought it couldn’t get worse, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance is working to prove us wrong.
The Trump Effect: A Deep Dive into Absurdity
The 2016 election unleashed a brand of populist rhetoric that thrives on division, fear, and misinformation.
Trump’s tactics were simple but effective: vilify the establishment, attack the media, and stoke the…
