Politics or Self-help?

About the Pence / Hamilton debacle but can be applied to so, so, SO much else:

So the question becomes: What are you trying to do? Have a real political impact, or just engage in emotional self-therapy and tribal bonding with people who already agree with you? Or to put it another way: Will this help flip Iowa? If it will, it’s politics. If it won’t, it’s narcissism and self-regard.

Preaching to the converted is clearly not working because the converted are not numerous enough to win elections. 

Also, if you reduce politics to clownish acts that do nothing but create scandal, don’t wonder why you get beaten by a more skillful clown.