Omarosa is the hero America deserves

Why do I think that Omarosa will emerge from this bizarre career as a hero of our age? Simply put, because she is the embodiment of American political life in 2018. Her meteoric rise and fall show us the realities of what the governing process has become since it began to be subsumed into entertainment half a century ago. A president who came up in the consciousness-augmenting world of “reality” television and staked his claim to govern on his ability to behave vilely on cable programs hired one of his apprentices, both literal and figurative, in the hope that she would use her talents in his service. Not long after Trump’s inauguration, The New York Times carped that Omarosa had only been given a job because of her “loyalty”; she was, the paper lamented, “one of the few with walk-in privileges for the Oval Office.” How did she repay the man who so prized her faithfulness and ability? She made recordings of seemingly everyone around her, including the commander in chief, for revenge and profit alike, recordings so valuable that even an attempt to bribe her with a $15,000-a-month make-work job on the president’s re-election campaign could be swiftly rejected in favor of her freedom to speak and publish.