Politics has become a personality contest. Voters need to look at the record instead

You don’t have to marry a politician or invite him over for lunch. You need him to get your policies enacted.

After 25 years of working with politicians in Israel, that may be the most important lesson I have learned. For beautiful speeches and intellectual inspiration, there are professors, rabbis, writers, and even YouTube influencers. Politics has a different purpose: to turn ideas into policy. A politician’s job is to get things done.

That is easy to forget, because politics today has sadly become a personality contest. We live in an age of media everywhere, where people follow government ministers like celebrities

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