If we can’t have vision, let’s have boldness and strength of purpose
September 30, 2024
One should never feel sympathy for a politician caught in a rule-in rule-out game. Perhaps the period should be after the eighth word, but there is something spectacularly dumb about foreclosing on policy options even when they are not under active contemplation, narrowing the range of debate and allowing its terms to be set by the opposition. All the more so when, as experienced politicians well know, there are formulae of words ready to serve to convert a possibility into a non-story.
