💬 The Great Tantrum Theatre: Why a Grown Man Storming Off Telly Tells Us Everything About Modern Politics
The Great Tantrum Theatre: Why a Grown Man Storming Off Telly Tells Us Everything About Modern Politics Right, let’s cut through the noise here. The story isn’t that Trump walked out of an interview—it’s that we’ve all collectively agreed to treat a grown adult’s strop as a legitimate political strategy, and nobody seems bothered about it anymore. I’ll be honest, mate. I watched the clip and my first thought wasn’t “scandalous!” It was: “Christ, we’ve normalised this.” A bloke gets asked a difficult question on live telly and legs it. Fifteen years ago, that would’ve been the end of his credibility. Now? Now it’s a tactical move. It’s the political equivalent of flipping the Monopoly board when you’re losing, except instead of your nan telling you off, three million people on Twitter applaud you for “not taking the mainstream media’s nonsense.” ...