The Candidate: Authenticity as Performance Art. Authenticity (or the appearance of it) will be foremost for a reality television candidate. Nuance will not be. As it turns out, sociopaths and narcissists have a much easier time appearing entirely authentic on television. Normal people, on the other hand, can appear stiff on camera because they have the ability to feel self-conscious. Method acting will be the new media training now that Trump has finally proven what so many failed candidates couldn’t grasp: You don’t need to be authentic, you need to act authentic. And if you don’t understand the difference, you should just go ahead and cast your 2020 vote for Kanye West. Post-Trump, candidates will need to create a compelling character for their reality TV campaign. And that character better act authentic!

The Team: Door Knocking Gone the Way of the Typewriter. Hillary Clinton is closing in on 1,000 paid staff. Donald Trump hasn’t hired 100. And of those, few Trump staffers seem capable of tying their shoelaces without creating opposition intent on preventing other campaign staff from wearing any shoes at all. Yet Trump was able to beat 16 other candidates more or less single-handedly, and he is heading into the general election without a communications or political director. Even if he loses, Trump has killed off an entire generation of Republican political operatives who won’t have the chance to gain experience on a general election presidential campaign. While this may strike some voters as actually a good thing, the hundreds of young people who fill junior positions across the country on a presidential campaign are also the future party loyalists, some day filling roles in county and state parties, running for town councils, and serving as surrogates every time they talk to their neighbors. If Hillary wins in November, the 2020 campaign just got that much more difficult for Republicans to take down an incumbent president. And if Trump wins, it may herald the end of becoming a GOP campaign aide as we know it—or the rise of the political television producer who scripts story arcs the way communications directors used to make message calendars.