I wrote the sitcom Veep, and its fictional take on politics is no guide to the actual threat the US election outcome poses.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.As soon as President Biden dropped out of the race, leaving his vice president to take on the candidacy, a pile-on of news organisations tracked me down to ask for comment. They weren’t after any insights on Kamala Harris’s campaign but instead wanted to know how I felt now that events were tracking the main story line of my HBO showThe show stars the unbeatable Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Vice President Selina Meyer.
In fact, I fear we’ve now crossed some threshold where the choreographed image or manufactured narrative becomes the only reality we have left. Look how the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, which happened only two weeks ago, so speedily transformed from real-time tragedy into iconography.
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