Senators recently booted from office may have experienced what Cato President Ed Crane calls a "Ceausescuean moment."
In his recent gem of a column, "What We Have Here Is a Failure to Communicate," Crane relates how he found a classic example of politicians' failure to communicate with the citizenry in a video of Romanian tyrant Nicolae Ceausescu's speech "to the teeming masses gathered in a square in Bucharest.
"Oblivious to the mood of the people, Ceausescu is at his bombastic, self-important best until he realizes that the chants from the crowd below are not praise, but something rather to the contrary.
"The look on his face: priceless."
How many others will experience their own "Ceausescuean moment" this November?
In his recent gem of a column, "What We Have Here Is a Failure to Communicate," Crane relates how he found a classic example of politicians' failure to communicate with the citizenry in a video of Romanian tyrant Nicolae Ceausescu's speech "to the teeming masses gathered in a square in Bucharest.
"Oblivious to the mood of the people, Ceausescu is at his bombastic, self-important best until he realizes that the chants from the crowd below are not praise, but something rather to the contrary.
"The look on his face: priceless."
How many others will experience their own "Ceausescuean moment" this November?
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