Political leaders have to perform to an increasingly hostile audience. Followers are a tougher crowd than they used to be
1997 Warren Bennis, a management guru, invited this columnist, who then had the onerous job of reporting on California, to a soirée in his house on Santa Monica beach to discuss the evergreen topic of leadership. A junior guru presented a paper on how today’s leaders needed all sorts of touchy-feely qualities such as empathy. Yours truly annoyed everyone by arguing that Margaret Thatcher had been a pretty good leader without knowingly engaging in empathy.
s annual survey of the trustworthiness of professions repeatedly shows that people don’t trust politicians. Last year they came second-to-bottom, just above advertising executives, with 19% of the public trusting them. A study of what words people associate with politicians discovered that the most common were sharply negative: contemptible, disgraceful, parasitical, sleazy, traitorous.
This collapse of legitimacy has been hastened by a widening of the gap between leaders and followers. The gap is usually explained in terms of the insulation of the elite, as politics has been taken over by a class that glides from studyingat Oxford to a career at Westminster without holding what most people regard as a “real” job. But it can also be explained in terms of the erosion of a civic culture that once linked Westminster to local politics.
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