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So they go for broke in placating the base and infuriating the opposition, making their fear of losing the next election a self-fulfilling prophecy.

With Carol, we saw that evolution from a placating wife and grieving mother into someone acutely aware of how strangers see her, and the ways that she can use their assumptions to her advantage.

“India isn’t in the business of placating Western powers, or anyone for that matter. It’s a trip meant to advance Indian interests, by reasserting friendship with Kyiv and conveying its concerns about the continuing war,” he says.

Such statements however have not succeeded in placating public scepticism.

“If she’s sensitive to those complaints when she’s probably the most progressive nominee they have had, it doesn’t signal she’s worried too much about placating the middle.”