History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits' future, spun of 'conventional wisdom, ' is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact.

Rick Perlstein
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  2. Stories are "how we organize the chaos of experience into the order we require just a carry-on." Joan Gideon

  3. Presidents are also always storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies.

  4. Politics is motion." John Sears

  5. What does sincerity mean if it is chosen as deliberate strategy?

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