There’s a lot that divides Americans these days, but if there is one unifying idea, it must be that people are sick to death of political campaigns. Our toxic campaign culture, dominated by negativity, has soured vast swaths of the populace to all things political.
So it’s more than a little ironic that the poisonous qualities of our multibillion-dollar campaign are seeping into ever more areas of public discourse. And the battle over the next chairman of the Federal Reserve is a perfect example of campaign weaponry deployed for zero public good.
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