Defining Politics

Interesting Senate race in Connecticut, writes David Bernstein :

One candidate’s adult life has been spent in a profession in which testosterone-infused alpha male types engage in well-choreographed bombast for the benefit of the credulous masses.

And the other has spent her career in professional wrestling.

Doesn’t that have the shape of a Will Rogers’ line?

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