Spencer Pratt's LA mayoral campaign was never a serious political bid
By
Sohini Desai
The kind of bagel that ruins lesser bagels for you.
Summary
A scathing opinion piece arguing that Spencer Pratt's mayoral primary run in Los Angeles was never a serious political campaign, but rather a media spectacle manufactured by outlets like The Free Press. The author dismisses the notion that Pratt's candidacy represented a legitimate challenge to status quo politics, comparing it to absurd hypotheticals and criticizing those who treated it as a serious political development.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledSpencer Pratt will not be the mayor of Los Angeles. There should be no need to utter this sentence, much like 'You do not have to swallow a rhino whole, tonight' or 'Human shit will not rain down from the sky.'
The Free Press worked harder than anyone has ever worked before to imbue Pratt's candidacy with legitimacy.
According to more than a few self-styled Serious Thinkers—perhaps still haunted by the shock they experienced on the night of Nov. 8, 2016—who insisted on treating Pratt's mayoral primary run as a legitimate rebuke of status quo politics: Yes.
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