Trends are just as important in politics as they a... -Christopher Wylie

Trends are just as important in politics as they are in fashion; just that rather than an aesthetic trend, it might be an ideological, behavioral or cultural trend - you need to keep track of all kinds of trends in politics because you need to know if you come out and say something, what the adoption of that will be six months down the road.

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Canadian data consultant and whistleblower, involved in the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal.

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