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This Is Not Normal
Yes, Trump Really Is An Imbecile
Among the things I never thought I’d actually have to say, let alone prove, while responding to reader comments
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The most widely shared piece I’ve published here on Medium was one I wrote in November 2018, titled “Donald Trump Is The Dunning-Kruger Effect Personified.” To date as of 2019, it has 3.8K “claps” — mere circus peanuts compared to some of the other top “Culture” writers on Medium who are pretty amazing and have, like, 230K claps on one piece alone. But still, my numbers are nothing to scoff at, especially for someone who didn’t get her writing start until later in life. And when you earn a meager living from writing, you have to pay attention to your stats.
What 3.8K claps (plus half as many shares over various media platforms) means the piece resonated on some level with quite a few people. I still get notifications in my Twitter feed that it has been shared again. And again. And just when I’ve forgotten about it, again. It sort of takes me by surprise every time, because this wasn’t a piece that I spent a lot of time…
