Originally published at: Personalization, The Vastly Bigger Story Behind the Pimpmobile Jet Bribe - TPM – Talking Points Memo
Just before the onset of the pandemic I’d started researching a longer project about the personalization of global politics which was accelerated but not started by Trump. In a way personalization is the inevitable companion of authoritarianism and autocracy. If there’s one guy who runs the show in each country then the affairs of that…
