Reactionaries actually have sort of a program. Trump leans more towards hucksterism-for-its-own-sake. He&#x27;s brilliant
at that but I&#x27;m not sure that&#x27;s right for politics per se. Hucksterism works better when  you can fold your tent and move on. Professor Harold Hill hadda leave town for it to truly work.<p>I don&#x27;t think he&#x27;s dishonest about it. There&#x27;s just in general copious amounts of what they used to call &quot;free-floating anxiety&quot; and somebody&#x27;s gotta exploit it. I think he&#x27;s sincerely trying to help.  I would hate to be him if
he ever figures out this won&#x27;t work.<p>The problem is media in general, and media in general is not incented to report widely on the problems of media in general. I suppose it would be considered too frivolous, but I think teaching some entry-level media criticism skill to, say, junior high kids would go a long way towards making this less of a thing.<p>I at least tried to make sure my kids knew this and had basic algebra skills with an eye towards being able to enforce some degree of rigor. I&#x27;m happy with the results, but it really confused them while I was telling them this.<p>At one point, I&#x27;d have said Canada does not have this problem but since then, it&#x27;s started.