Spencer Pratt Enters LA Mayoral Race, Bringing Reality TV Star Power to Politics

In a city grappling with housing crises, homelessness, and public safety emergencies, Spencer Pratt — the carefully constructed villain of early 2000s reality television — has announced his candidacy for mayor of Los Angeles. The announcement spread across social media with the velocity of entertainment news rather than civic discourse, raising an old question in a new register: what qualities does a democracy actually demand of those who seek to govern it? His entry joins a longer American story about the dissolving membrane between spectacle and statecraft, and what it means when attention b