Elusive Lessons on the Morning After
Who Will Learn Them?
“A democrat just asked me if my American flag pin means I’m voting Trump.
This is the problem.
If the Democrats lose today they will have earned it, through years of denouncing capitalism and the United States”
Seamus Riley, X, re-tweeted by Gus Van Horn
“I advocate individual rights, i.e. personal and economic freedom.
It should bother you that I am politically homeless in America, of all places.”
If only the late, great P.J. O’Rourke were here to comment on yesterday’s silver lining of an election …
As a general rule, I don’t like to speculate too much on what deceased public figures would think of the latest cultural or political pathology. Indeed, too many who are still around disappoint and contradict themselves, especially in the covid era.


