Our fearless faculty director, Prof. Tom Cronin, talked about how we want contradictory things in our presidents:
Someone who is a common person, yet with uncommon genius
Someone who is powerful, yet we fear that power
Someone who is visionary but pragmatic
Someone who is self-confident, yet humble
Someone who unifies us yet is decisive
Someone who is caring but is willing to do "business with the devil"
Someone who is above politics, but couldn't possibly win without those skills
The students were fascinated with this, and our discussion seemed to lead to many other paradoxes and contradictory situations in politics and, specifically, in this presidential contest. We're going to keep an eye to these during the next ten days.
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