Capturing the Reality TV Drama of a Divided Congress

As TV genres go, national politics in the Trump era is as on-the-nose as it gets—delicious instability, blatant backstabbing, legislative high-drama, and daily presidential temper tantrums. The political shade-serving is squarely, unmistakably, reality TV. It’s all but embedded in our DNA. As Michael Thomsen wrote last year, “The logic of reality television—that the raw material […]