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Richard Hanania: The Politics of Everything

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The Myth of the Rational Voter

In your book, you consistently describe voters as rationally ignorant. Do you disagree that voters are rational? And do you need voter rationality to make your story work? Well, well, i mean, i think i agree with your book, but they're rational in the sense that they're doing whaut makes sense for themselves, which is to be irrationa,. There's any other's epistemic rationality. Then you could say there's instrumental rationalitys ieont - armilrly rational and epistemologically irrational.

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