I would be very much in favor of political leaders doing AMAs on a regular basis. Monthly, or heck, weekly like PMQTs. Connect with the people more often and

I would be very much in favor of political leaders doing AMAs on a regular basis. Monthly, or heck, weekly like PMQTs. Connect with the people more often and more directly. Eventually those politicians who made genuine connections would perform better on AMAs than those that simply regurgitated the usual talking points. That kind of thing could make a real difference. I think the odds are against it since it would remove some of the buffer that the current style of message-controlled, divide-and-conquer, us-v-them politics absolutely depends on. But we can dream.