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Should Jon Stewart Run for President in 2028? The Movement Is Growing — and It’s No Longer a Joke

allchronology.com Should Jon Stewart Run for President in 2028? The Movement Is Growing — and It’s No Longer a Joke

When Mehdi Hasan sat down with Jon Stewart last month, the roles were reversed. This time, the Emmy-winning host of The Daily Show was the one asking the questions — about corporate media, Gaza, Do…

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The Venn diagram overlap of personality characteristics of modern politicians and celebrities is extraordinarily large. Pure charisma drives success in modern media-driven politics. It's sad, but I believe it's truth now.
- Charisma has always been a major driver of politics, be it Republican Roman, Great Britain during WW2, or now. The only thing that is really different, is that we have better records of what modern politicians get up to. I recommend watching Historia Civilis's coverage on Rome, particularly the "His Year" subseries.
  
  Being seen as having rizz at the national level is nothing to scoff at. We disdain celebrity but it is hard to obtain and keep. It can be used for good or ill, but the competencies needed for durable celebrity status are many.
  Think about all the skills and consistency a person who is on camera all the time has to have. They need to be internally consistent. They need to know who they are and project themselves well. they need to know how to manage a media career and they need to speak ideas that resonate with an audience and make people want to remember their name.
  You are absolutely correct celebrity and politician have always been intertwined professions.
- Turn it to our advantage ? not USian, but we all have something to lose

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