Blog Credo

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

Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Counterfactuals

 We don't know what a competent president would have down with Covid. America is uniquely resistant to both expert advice and unitary action. But we can compare governorships and the evidence there - both positive and negative - is pretty clear. Leadership matters and we had the absolute worst.

Just 26 hours to go.

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