How do we imagine politicians, exactly? Veterans, victors, Gen-X, amateurs, millennials, rising stars…or whoever it is, wherever they are on their career arc — how do we really imagine them? I’ll tell what I see — nothing remarkably defining. That’s the truth — I don’t *really* see some figure that might be considered as a substantial imagination. I like to blame it — not on lack of imagination — but on the saturation of stereotypical presentations that have been flooding the market ever since! Think about it for a minute. Every time you’re asked to picture a young, coming-of-age politician, you have a fairly distinct portrait flashing before your eyes: well-groomed, well-dressed, with a twinkle in their eyes that leads the common people to hold and have high hopes for them, whether

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