A Tale of Two Electorates

Is character a luxury?

Remarkl
6 min readSep 29, 2024
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Dickens had it right. Depending on who you are:

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way — in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

Most Americans know that Kamala Harris is a better person than Donald Trump, but most Americans tell polsters that Donald Trump would be better at handling the economy and immigration. I don’t believe Trump would be better at anything, and I do believe he would be worse at preserving the Republic, but I say that here only to disclose my Never-Trump leanings, not to argue the point.

Harris is famously fond of Venn Diagrams. She knows that the “Kamala is a better person”…

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