Celebrity claptrap isn’t the only toxin corroding public esteem for the campaign. Conventional mainstream politics has hardly been covering itself in glory either
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Politics is an ugly business for show-people. Celebrities are a famously thin-skinned bunch, usually characterised by an insatiable appetite for the approval of audiences and the adoration of strangers.
More often than not, therefore, celebs who enter the political fray tend to do so in the belief that their headlong plunge into public affairs will be extensively lauded and applauded. Stars are celestial beings, after all, and mere mortals should always genuflect when gods deign to walk among us, right?