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To Didion, Kennedy represented something insidious in the American character: the desire for voters to admire politicians like movie stars, and the pandering of American politicians to provide heroes made of clay.

Rep. Tom Suozzi of New York excoriated Democrats for "pandering to the far left" on issues related to transgender people.

The band didn’t pander to the newbie meme crowds though.

Fox News is so terrified of its viewers that it pandered to their hunger for confirmation of the lie that the 2020 election was stolen.

But the scripts tapped into the first Trump administration media fantasy of the dejected working-class white guy angst without pandering to either side of the partisan divide.