Trump 2.0
16th November 2022
In the before times, Bill Buckley would claim that he could know everything about a man’s politics based on his opinion of Israel and abortion. These were clarifying issues that did not easily allow for nuance or ambivalence. If you had any politics at all, you had an opinion on these issues. To some degree it is still true, but the clarifying issue of this age is Donald Trump. You cannot engage in politics at any level without having a position on the most famous pitch man in history.
Whenever somebody asks me ‘What do you think of so-and-so?’ I always say ‘He’ll never be the quarterback that Unitas was.’ That usually ends the conversation.