A Fortunate Reversal
What a difference a fortnight and a half can make. The past three weeks have raised the possibility that we, the people, may not, in fact, be strapped into cheap seats at the glacier races. To the contrary, we now have evidence that if certain people in strategic positions do the right thing, conditions may change. What’s more, these changes—at least so it appears at the moment, let’s not get ahead of ourselves—might move the nation away from, rather than toward, utter catastrophe. Obviously, any such bold pronouncement demands extraordinary evidence. Here ’tis: On the one hand exuberant Democrats, their internecine animosities forgotten in the …