How Can Emotional Managment Be Harmened in Politics?

The American founders in their writings and the Federalists, other political philosophers who talked about this stuff, they didn't have illusions about making a perfectly rational or deliberative community. They recognized that emotion was always going to be a part of the process and it was usually going to be an out-sized part. And so I think the limitation of focusing exclusively on,. you might say, the downsides of those emotional manipulations that you see in the nights is that it misses the way in which emotion can also be harnessed to do good things.