Debate Over Whether Networks Should Stop Interviewing Kellyanne Conway

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57. I doubt MSM will stop interviewing Con-way; more likely, tRump will stop dealing with MSM...

His concerns over legitimacy reveal his limitations in using social media. Though he is better at it than anyone else at this time, he doesn't realize that legitimacy grows from national/community agreement, which in turn and heretofore has been the provence of the mass media model (pre Revolutionary times up). tRump is on the cutting edge of how to use social media to coalesce a movement, but he doesn't yet know how to legitimize through it.

In a sense, the "left" (a threat to both parties) is in the same boat. The marches -- an awesome event still unmeasured in significance -- was a harbinger back to the old ways of legitimizing, and it worked to de-legitimize tRump. But the new left-of-center coalition will face the same dilemma the Pretender does: How to legitimize a movement in the post MSM era. No one has a prototype model for replacing the old MSM model in this new time.