But Don't Despair

About all we can do is laugh in their faces.

IOZ:

First let me say: It’s good to be angry. It’s good to be worried. It’s good to be afraid. But it gains nothing to despair. We’re neither the first nor the last people on earth to be ruled rather than governed. We’re neither the first nor the last to consign our fate to the whims of madmen and murderers. American exceptionalism afflicts those of us who propose to defend an ideal—and idealized—Republic as much as it afflicts those who’ve recently driven the nails into its wrists and the spear into its side. We’re neither the first nor the last people on earth to be ruled by an egomaniacal moron. If our chapter is a sad one, it’s still just a chapter. (“A comma,” the dauphin might put it in other circumstances.)

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