Our country is as rotten as a Minneapolis bridge, yet our politics is more of a clown show than ever, with tire gauges and celebrity slurs instead of squirting flowers and slapsticks. The more completely these matters are devoted to symbols rather than issues, the more obsolete Parties become: they’re less political entities than production companies as it is, distinguished mostly by proprietary image banks that convey “toughness,” “compassion,” or what have you, the way MGM was once associated with glamour and Warner Brothers with action pictures.

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