"Welcome to the first true post-mass media election."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMKFIHRpe7I

Yes. That really happened.

Obama ramped up the social media to dizzying heights and Bernie surfed far past where an also-ran could be expected to wind up, but Trump is kicking it, and he's tapped into something utterly terrifying. Sort of like an unholy, ghastly hybrid of Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson, and the late Sir James Goldsmith, rebooted in New Jersey and sent on a daikaiju rampage through the American Id.

via http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/07/a-plaintive-request.html#comment-2006628
and
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/07/a-plaintive-request.html#comment-2006692