They usually make me crazy. Bill Simmons and most others like to show that they are up on this cool stuff, that they are just like real journalists - by which they mean "media writers who know what the slant is supposed to be." Simmons is a great judge of talent, but I just don't have respect for a guy who still needs to be cool at fifty years old.
Kevin Clark @ The Ringer just had a political comment spot on, however. I don't know his politics, and it is not an extended, nuanced take. It's one of those clever two-sentence things that usually creates more heat than light. However...
Voters take Trump seriously but not literally. Writers take him literally but not seriously.
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Exactamente! We see him for what he is, and THEY see him as what they are.
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