Cultivating the grapes of political wrath
If you persuade voters that their victims, that a party in power is purposely bamboozling or persecuting them or that its unfairly helping its cronies at the expense of taxpayers, not only will angry voters get angrier, they will also develop a keen desire to get even.
OAKVILLE, ONT.—Any politician seeking electoral success must learn how to harness the power of anger.
And, yes, in politics, anger is a potentially powerful weapon.
It’s an emotion that, if properly exploited, can mobilize and motivate, arouse and animate, energize and excite.
But the key wor...
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