non grata. Except they are grata now. Excruciatingly so. Our tactics were so pervasive that even politicians morphed into celebrity demigods.
When the media chooses to cover the footwear fashions and pedicured personal lives of our public servants more extensively than their policies or track records, how can any of us be surprised when a shiny charlatan ascends to power?
This is an American crisis on both sides of the aisle (cough, cough: Cuomosexuals).With social media, we hatched a new algorithm of influence, whereby those with the most likes, clicks, and shares were anointed as rulers regardless of merit.