#politics

Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits. ↗

— John Avlon

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#fear #find #follows #new #now

What's different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. It's all part of the suffocating spin cycle we're in. In media, politics and publishing, the conventional wisdom is to play to this base. ↗

— John Avlon

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#conventional #conventional wisdom #cycle #different #give

When people tap into this politics of resentment, it usually ends ugly. ↗

— John Avlon

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#into #people #politics #resentment #tap