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Who is the showman is not material unless you care about the show.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “Who is the showman is not material unless you care about the show.”
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Bagehot argues that the identity of leaders matters less if the public is indifferent to the spectacle of politics.
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