What makes a great politician?

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(12-18-2017 02:39 AM)AussieMick Wrote:  What are the strengths that make a politician great?
It would be useful if people could give 1 or 2 or ... even 5 strengths.


I suggest that you dont restrict yourself to Lincoln. Thats why I put this thread in Other. Maybe we could in another thread identify his strengths ... and weaknesses or rate him against the identified 'great' politician's strengths.

Vanity Fair has provided a remarkable collection of six scholars of the presidency (A. Scott Berg, Robert Dallek, Jon Meacham, Edmund Morris, Stacy Schiff, and Garry Wills with five out of these six authors awarded historically) in the October 2017 issue. Highly logical, nuanced, with Jon Meacham providing perhaps the best cautionary tale: "it's unclear whether we'll be able to isolate the Trump administration as an aberration, as opposed to the opening act in a genuine decline and a much longer story."