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Welcome to Political Thinking.

When we're facing a crisis,

what do we really want from a leader?

Who should they turn to for inspiration?

Look, we depend on the summer people here for our very lives.

You're not going to have a star, so is this.

We're finished.

But we're not only going to have to close the beach.

We're going to have to hire somebody to kill the shark.

I mean, we're going to have to tell the coastline.

It's from Steven Spielberg's masterpiece,

George, the film that captures the arguments about how a community

should face up to a terrible threat.

You're going to ignore this particular problem

until it swims up and bites you on the edge.

Now wait a second, wait a second.

There are two ways to deal with this problem.

Are you either going to kill this animal or are you going to cut off its food supply?

Larry, we have to close the beaches.

Mayor Larry Vaughn, the man he wanted to keep open the beaches,

in jaws, might seem an unlikely hero.

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