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always more powerful than the pitch. Meanwhile, M.B., you’re right that we don’t take sides – in the large, editorial sense of “we.” On the other hand, writing as individual people, each of us is free to take whatever side he or she desires. However, the main political division at American Consequences is between those of us who feel that politics is a necessary evil and those of us who feel that politics is so evil that it’s necessary to leave it the hell alone.
appropriate vocal stylings to convey the true meaning of my wordy-isms. – John M. P.J. O’Rourke comment: John, the copy editor confessed to defeat at getting your vocal stylings into an appropriate typeface. But thank you for so clearly and thoroughly not mentioning the fact that two years ago, in a moment of weakness and fear, I chose “The Devil I Knew” over “The Joker With 51 Cards in His Deck.” So far – I’m glad to say – I seem to have been wrong. But there’s still a lot that could go wrong with being right, if you know what I mean. Darn it, I just told James H. to vote. Now you’ve got me thinking, “Don’t vote, it just encourages the bastards.” I am a junior at a local school somewhere in Michigan and I have a question to ask you. Do you think that the next president of the United States will be worse than the president we already have? None of you take sides, which is understandable. – M.B. P.J. O’Rourke comment: Short answer: Yes. Long answer: If the next president is the same president we’ve got now, he’ll be worse because presidents in their second terms are always worse (less inspired, more exhausted) than they were in their first terms. If the next president is someone opposed to the president we have now, he or she will be worse because the partisan anger we saw in 2016 will have been batted back in 2020, and the hit is
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