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He hasn’t been equal to the multiple crises. Good news or bad, he rarely makes any situation better. And everyone kind of knows.

— Peggy Noonan

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Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.

Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature. John Kennedy had wit, and so did Lincoln, who also had abundant humor; Reagan was mostly humor.

Donald Trump’s hold on history loosened, and may be breaking.

He's not an intellectual. Intellectuals start all the trouble in the world.

I would think to myself [...] that the battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: Never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.

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