Catherine Gail is an ex-CEO who became a reformer against what she calls the political industry. She says it would be ideal if our politics was really about ideas and policies. But in reality, her take is that they treat it as much as a game as the demand side does. A poisonous cocktail of othering, aversion and moralization poses a threat to democracy, she says.
It’s fun to obsess over pop stars and racecar drivers — but is fandom making our politics even more toxic?