The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particula…

Walter Lippmann
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The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the thing the voters most want is to be told what to want. ✨ Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy, p.475, Harvard University Press
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