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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Friday, August 9, 2019

This Time Won't Be Different

What are we to make of this?  Trump is a combination of congenital liar and uninformed buffoon, so there is literally no meaningful way to assess the accuracy of whether Congress if finally going to pass meaningful background checks.

But if history is any guide, we will have some noise about background checks, maybe banning a few ridiculous accessories like bump stocks or 100 round drum magazines.  Then, after the funerals are over and a few weeks have passed, it will die in some Senate subcommittee under the rheumy eyes of Mitch McConnell.

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