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Follow Politics Like It's a Form of Entertainment
We allow ourselves to root for murderers, bank robbers and torturers when we see them on the screen so long as it's been clear that they're our hero or our anti-hero. We forgive all sorts of behaviors that we would say should put you in jail never mind make you a pariah. The problem is that when you start following politics like it's a form of entertainment, you start the sort of tribal mind kind of takes over," he says.