How To Succeed In Politics Without Really Trying

Or: “How I learned to stop worrying and love populism”

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The twin axioms of representative democracy are (i) that no matter how incompetent, mendacious, unstable, and venal you may be, you can stand for election; and (ii) no matter how ignorant, simple-minded, bigoted, and unstable you may be, you can vote.