This thread starts with #Debates2020 , but then rapidly gets more interesting.

The UK & EU have a (very) mild version of the problem Claire describes (cough, Jeremy Kyle, cough, Berlusconi's media empire, cough), but in the US, it's taken on a life of its own. https://twitter.com/claireberlinski/status/1311237519284068353
It's weird how it's become so poisonous in the US. In the UK & EU programmes like that were pulled after abuse & suicides. They also have terrible history, as I pointed out last year in the Speccie (Australian edition paywall shouldn't boot you out). https://www.spectator.com.au/2019/06/the-public-humiliation-diet/
RTYI @ClaireBerlinski - the Australian equivalent of The Onion has come to the same conclusion. https://twitter.com/BetootaAdvocate/status/1311177679119331329?s=20
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