Tag: Carly Fiorina

The only certainty appears to be that the escalating rhetoric of candidates who exploit the social fear of decline is also a product of a frivolous media complex that cultivates every glitzy spectacle as long as it generates amused, horrified attention.

In the US, the expansion of the primary system and blurring of news and entertainment elevate personality and presentation at the expense of policy.

Republicans, and along with them all of America, are struggling with an eccentric billionaire’s populism, whose magic seems invincible.

The U.S. has only admitted 1,500 Syrians. The fear of Islamic extremists is great; the debate on immigration venomous.

Whatever the cause, the Republicans seemed altogether more nuanced, more constructive and more hopeful than usual.