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Possibly the defining development of postmodern politics – naturally, an American one – is the separation of personality from ideology. If you are likeable, or at least not disagreeable, if you can strike a personal bond with the electorate, if you reassure rather than disrupt, it doesn’t really matter what you stand for.

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Galling for left-wing activists and the mainstream media’s bottom line – in its way as galling as Fox’s daily agitprop – was the fact that liberal media did not have the talent or the savvy or the passion to match conservative media’s success.

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Politics, which really is about the art of expression, ought to be a logical profession for writers (it’s very hard to explain to politics- and policy-addicted people that language is the basis of all ideas – if you can’t say it, you can’t think it), instead of a refuge for lawyers and apparatchiks.

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May 14, 2024

Politics, which really is about the art of expression, ought to be a logical profession for writers (it’s very hard to explain to politics- and policy-addicted people that language is the basis of all ideas – if you can’t say it, you can’t think it), instead of a refuge for lawyers and apparatchiks.

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May 14, 2024

Galling for left-wing activists and the mainstream media’s bottom line – in its way as galling as Fox’s daily agitprop – was the fact that liberal media did not have the talent or the savvy or the passion to match conservative media’s success.

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