POL110 U.S. Government
Week 4 Discussion
The “Permanent Campaign”
consider the description of the “permanent campaign,” a concept widely publicized by journalist Sidney Blumenthal, “as a combination of image making and strategic calculation that turns governing into a perpetual campaign and ‘remakes government into an instrument designed to sustain an elected official’s popularity.'” Given this description of the “permanent campaign,” in your opinion, has politics, particularly U.S. politics, coalesced the twenty-four news cycle into a bastion of partisan mud-slinging, political beauty contest, and public opinionated journalism?