Tuesday, March 15, 2022

“Pent-Up Idealism”?

That’s a nice way to put it. Gives us all a lot of credit. But I think the answer is simpler and cruder: we have a common enemy again.

And it’s not just us. Even Finland and Sweden want to stand with NATO. Switzerland was moved to break its absolute neutrality.

Are we all idealists again in America? Is history at an end at last? Nah. It’s just the lesson of Pearl Harbor: nothing unifies Americans like someone we can all agree is a rat bastard. And a foreigner. That’s the real difference between Putin and Trump.

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