This week Vanity Fair special correspondent Gabriel Sherman, who has covered Donald Trump since 2015, joins cohost Joe Hagan for an in-depth discussion of the final days of the 2020 election and—possibly—the Trump era. Sherman and Hagan look past the polls to discern the narrative logic of Trump’s reality-TV presidency: As he runs out of ideas, the president of “scandal, chaos, and conflict” has been bested by his biggest political competitor of the 2020 campaign: the coronavirus. Desperate to distract the public from the reality of mass death and joblessness, Trump has failed to live up to his own entertainment credo. “He’s become boring,” says Sherman. Carefully peeking past November 3, the two Hive reporters consider what comes next for Trump, for the media, and, more importantly, for an exhausted nation. Is it possible to return to political normalcy, even under Joe Biden?
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