Perhaps we will celebrate the recognition that there are precious few common purposes to unite around, and that the Washington of Dr. New Deal and Dr. Win the War ought not be looked to for guidance on everything else.
It has been my hope that someone will run for president with the objective of lowering expectations: no longer Chief Operating Officer of The Economy and Commander in Chief of the Free World and Father Confessor and Keeper of the Down Pillows. Perhaps, though, the leading indicator will be from the press, in the form of one of the Sunday shows returning to a studio in New York City, or even Los Angeles, rather than Washington, or, more encouragingly, setting up in Chicago.I've been fighting it out on this line for more than one summer, but so far, I have not been persuaded not to keep fighting. "The beginning of wisdom is the recognition that, perhaps, Washington, as a source of the problem, might be able to help fix the problem by offering to, oh, scale back some of its efforts." Emergence is messy, and not subject to the enlightened efforts of Supreme Commanders or Mission Control.
That is all.
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