"The Gradual-And-Then-All-At-Once Slide Into Our Strange Digital Present"

"For those who expect American politics to conform at least somewhat to the past two and a half centuries of history, the 2024 campaign cycle seems unsettling, an even stranger and more radical break than we've seen before. But if you look at what's driving these changes—a transformed media landscape, the increasingly tenuous link between policy and public sentiment, a sea change in how pollsters track the American public—you can see that it's not quite a break, but the emergence of a future that some have been living in for years."

At Politico, Derek Robertson writes that "[y]es, this is the future of politics."