Opinion | Steve Bannon Is Onto Something - The New York Times - 0 views
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In his 2020 book “Politics Is for Power,” Eitan Hersh, a political scientist at Tufts, sketched a day in the life of many political obsessives in sharp, if cruel, terms.I refresh my Twitter feed to keep up on the latest political crisis, then toggle over to Facebook to read clickbait news stories, then over to YouTube to see a montage of juicy clips from the latest congressional hearing. I then complain to my family about all the things I don’t like that I have seen.
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To Hersh, that’s not politics. It’s what he calls “political hobbyism.” And it’s close to a national pastime.
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Real political work, for Hersh, is the intentional, strategic accumulation of power in service of a defined end
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