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Win By Not Losing

What can explain Kamala Harris’ rise from a 28 percent approval rating–the lowest of any vice president in American history–to her sudden ascension to the lead, essentially overnight?

To understand this phenomenon, Bill Whittle goes back to Charles Mackay’s Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds and shows how mass formation delusions are shocking, mystifying and temporary.

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