Daily Clips: July 25th, 2016
TWEET OF THE DAY:
So, all HRC wants to do is to put the word “email” on the back burner. So, much for that…
— amy walter (@amyewalter) July 25, 2016
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DON’T FREAK OUT OVER NATIONAL POLLS:
In fact, polling during the conventions is even less likely to be predictive of the final outcome of the election than polling at both earlier and later times of the year, says Princeton election guru Sam Wang.
DAY 1 OF DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION: Bernie Sanders will take the stage tonight and “get one last chance to push his agenda in front of an audience of millions.” And oh yeah, he’ll also endorse Hillary Clinton.
HOW ROUSSEAU PREDICTED TRUMP: The political philosopher, Rousseau, was an anti-elitist and many of his warnings about concentration of power are coming true today. His take on human nature is…honest and runs against liberalism’s reliance on the individual:
Rousseau refused to believe that the interplay of individual interests, meant to advance the new civilization, could produce any natural harmony. The obstacle, as he defined it, existed in the souls of sociable men or wannabe bourgeois: it was the insatiable craving to secure recognition for one’s person from others, which leads ‘each individual to make more of himself than of any other.’
