The Politics of Opposition Research

As a political consultant, John Avlon often engaged in some version of the old rhetoric: "You are stupid and you are wrong" He says he got bored with that because it's no longer interesting to him. And if you believe everything that you believed at 22 years old, ohiah, don't think you're an interesting person,. But i mean, on the things where i haven't changed, but it can sound, you know, that i've squished out that i'm a rhino."