“We’re a weird country. I think the overwhelming majority of Americans would be perfectly happy with a center-left or center-right president who was sane, steady, even a bit boring. But our politics are increasingly anything but that, because partisan activists, talking heads and the Twitter furies won’t allow it. How do we change that? How does boring triumph over bad?”
– Bret Stephens,
The New York Times, April 23, 2019