So will the parameters of the politically irrational — we will all, in effect, be trapped in a room with Newt Gingrich, and may find that he isn't even the one making the least sense.
In trying to understand the motivation behind the opposition, I once again turned to my Republican pal Bryant, my right-wing muse and trusty barometer of all things politically irrational and illogical, who also happens to live in California.
As the United States has learned this past decade, mistakes can happen in the form of politically driven irrational choices.
We are living in a post-rational moment, politically speaking; as irrational feelings go, love is preferable to those emotions to which Trump's Republican Party has laid implicit claim.
This ruling acknowledged what many people had long felt, that segregation was morally indefensible, socially irrational and politically undemocratic.
Fuller was "a strange, even irrational, and politically rather dangerous man," Danaher said, but the officer's notion of the indirect attack was profound.
If you see somebody that looks scary, honestly tell yourself why that person scares you, even if the reason is totally irrational or politically incorrect.
Caplan cites Anthony Downs's "An Economic Theory of Democracy" (1957): "It is irrational to be politically well-informed because the low returns from data simply do not justify their cost in time and other resources".
Defending the odd unpopular position, it follows, may be politically helpful: like a kind of irrational exuberance, it can make a party look sincere, principled, and so on, shaping the underlying character judgments on which voting choices are ultimately made.
Their crime-fighting abilities are severely hampered by years of irrational policies and genuflecting to politically power hungry special interest groups.
Besides, it may be irrational to go into ecstasies about the continuation of a politically disenfranchised monarchy, but nations are not rational constructs, and the history of Britain is told in kings and queens.
