I take the uncouth frame as a focus on the motivation of the media in how they judge politicians who violate their conventions. Trump is the black hole in the center of this framing, but he has been his entire political career. He simply is not considered to be a politician and is exempt from this judgement. I think it has to do with med…
I take the uncouth frame as a focus on the motivation of the media in how they judge politicians who violate their conventions. Trump is the black hole in the center of this framing, but he has been his entire political career. He simply is not considered to be a politician and is exempt from this judgement. I think it has to do with media's refusal to consider what Trump is and what his popularity says about this country and the assumptions it rests on. They pretend he is a politician in covering him but refuse to judge him the way they judge the Democratic party. This dichotomy is strained already, and will only get worse as his administration gets to work. Things are going to get very, very weird.
I take the uncouth frame as a focus on the motivation of the media in how they judge politicians who violate their conventions. Trump is the black hole in the center of this framing, but he has been his entire political career. He simply is not considered to be a politician and is exempt from this judgement. I think it has to do with media's refusal to consider what Trump is and what his popularity says about this country and the assumptions it rests on. They pretend he is a politician in covering him but refuse to judge him the way they judge the Democratic party. This dichotomy is strained already, and will only get worse as his administration gets to work. Things are going to get very, very weird.