I mean , the TV sets and graphics are interchangeable . Some of the commentators have switched between Sports and Politics . Nate Silver is a baseball statistician primarily . It ' s a mixture of sports and now reality TV . Reality TV is all about reactions . We care less about what the dumb idiots do directly than we do about how people react to what they do . It ' s why so many shows feature bullish Trumplike figuresand Trump himself . because we really love seeing people drop a plate , being yelled at , and then seeing an interview with another contestant saying I really didn ' t think they ' d drop that plate , but then I was like . wow they dropped it . For whatever reasons , that combination is infectious . And well . it ' s infected ' politics '. It ' s just damn depressing because at least Sports and Reality TV are arbitrary . Governance actually matters and has real consequences , and yet .