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Editor,
As we approach the presidential election this year, there are three newsworthy TV analyses, which caught my attention early this month. Here they are, very briefly summarized from notes I took during the broadcasts.
Number one: Former president Barack Obama is beginning to speak out on the upcoming election. He spoke eloquently about our common human traits of selfishness, what’s in it for me, and the impulse for saving face. He elaborated on these characteristics as being especially common in politics, and he went on to speak on how compelling this will be during the months leading up to the presidential election.
Number two and three: The attraction and building up of the Trump campaign for re-election is so strong and effective that it is going to take a tremendous effort and effective effort by the Biden campaign to match such a movement.
Following up on this, on another channel, I heard a very good discussion with David Axelrod about this very subject. One of his comments that really caught my attention: “Regardless of Trump’s lies, blames, and un-presidential behavior, there is a very well-organized re-election movement working for him.”
Anyway, I just thought I’d put these short analyses into this letter as food for thought.
Bob McClellan
Missoula
