Over at Politico, Josh King reflects on the disastrous Michael Dukakis presidential campaign—specifically the moment the Massachusetts governor donned a helmet and rode around in an M1A1 Abrams, trying to resemble a muscular commander in chief. Except he didn’t.

“Why had an event that everyone now agrees was such a terrible idea ever happened in the first place?” asks the author, who served on the campaign.

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