.@BarackObama: "So much of our politics, our public life, our public discourse, can seem small and mean and petty. Trafficking in bombast and insult and phony controversies and manufactured outrage. It's a politics that pretends to be brave and tough but in fact is born of fear.” pic.twitter.com/JzmGvBx90h— CSPAN (@cspan) September 1, 2018