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There's an old story about a campaign stop for Adlai Stevenson, who ran against Eisenhower as the Democratic Party's candidate in 1952 and 1956. Stevenson had a reputation as an intellectual and an idealistic "liberal," and one of his supporters gushed that "you have the vote of every thinking person." To which Stevenson replied, "That's not enough, we need a majority."Because the majority of voters don't think. Get it?This is one of my favorite political stories because it reminds us of the historical moment when Democrats stopped trying to be the party of the common man and adopted a pretense of condescending superiority. (The common man returned the favor by voting for Eisenhower in a landslide. Twice.)I was reminded of this incident because the Trump campaign is attempting an equally condescending inversion of that attitude. Donald Trump is attempting to win a majority by appealing to the unthinking man.
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