A year and so ago, Naila Keleta-Mae was praising the art of the spectacle.

https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/black-lives-matter-is-dramatic-unsettling-and-inconvenient-thats-the-point/article30758467/?ref=http://www.theglobeandmail.com&

Politics as spectacle is destructive. It inflames emotion rather than stimulates reason.  One time moments of superficial drama as opposed to the construction of a long term process of engagement and dialogue.

So while I agree Trump is the sad stuff of spectacle, I suggest Naila Keleta-Mae reflect on the spectacle of those she praised. When one promotes the environment of spectacle, don't be surprised when that becomes the operating motif for all. You too become just another symptom of a deeper disease in civil society.