I just listened again to an old episode of John and Glenn, "Starbucks and Swimming Pool." If you skip to the 42:00 mark, John describes how he strategically inserts comments in his writing to keep a certain audience from tuning out. He is discussing racism, not Trump, but the idea of signaling in order to avoid being dismissed could apply to TDS as well. If you are addressing liberals and lose all of those with TDS, you aren't going to have much of an audience left.
I'm not in disagreement with you that John probably does have a true case of TDS, but either way, in my opinion, it's likely helpful in reaching his target audience.
By the way, "Starbucks and Swimming Pools" is an excellent episode. I intend to quote elsewhere something Glenn said about narratives.
Thanks for pointing me to "Starbucks and Swimming Pool". I just finished watching it and it was a good one. John comes across as pretty reasonable in that discussion.
I just listened again to an old episode of John and Glenn, "Starbucks and Swimming Pool." If you skip to the 42:00 mark, John describes how he strategically inserts comments in his writing to keep a certain audience from tuning out. He is discussing racism, not Trump, but the idea of signaling in order to avoid being dismissed could apply to TDS as well. If you are addressing liberals and lose all of those with TDS, you aren't going to have much of an audience left.
I'm not in disagreement with you that John probably does have a true case of TDS, but either way, in my opinion, it's likely helpful in reaching his target audience.
By the way, "Starbucks and Swimming Pools" is an excellent episode. I intend to quote elsewhere something Glenn said about narratives.
Thanks for pointing me to "Starbucks and Swimming Pool". I just finished watching it and it was a good one. John comes across as pretty reasonable in that discussion.