THIS

[Orange Buffoon]

34. There are so many good things in this.

(It's the first time I have read the entire thing.) In particular:
"But when a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense: he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even comprehending any save the most elemental—men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack, or count himself lost."