Representatives legitimize constituent fears by sympathetically acknowledging them

Evidence

By representing himself as sharing the worry of a military takeover, he failed to fulfill his responsibility to not only express an understanding but also correct a misunderstanding by telling his constituents that their fears are unfounded and dangerous. He abdicated his responsibility to maintain a partisan connection that works in two directions. The two-way connection transmits information not only from the citizens to government but also from the government to citizens. — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 324

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Elected partisans are the effective channel for speaking truth to conspiracy.; Official acknowledgment of a fear ratifies it as reasonable unless paired with correction — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 324; Representatives must both voice constituents’ worries and correct their errors — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 324