Is the more likely explanation based on the “R” next to his name and the “D” next to Adams’s?
In a recent piece in his newly launched newsletter, Slack Tide, one of America’s great writers, Matt Labash, writes:
When people ask me what I am, I often tell them “tired.” Then, when they specify that no, they were asking about my political orientation, I tell them the same thing, as it’s still applicable.
To be less glib, I like to call myself a mildly disillusioned conservative. The only reason I don’t classify myself as a severely disillusioned one is that to be severely disillusioned, you have to be illusioned in the first place. And I harbor almost no illusions. I regard nearly all politicians not as worthy repositories for my hopes and sunny optimism, but as necessary evils. As a breed, they are generally too ambitious, too demagogic, or too into self-preservation at all costs to say anything much worth listening to.
I’ll say “amen” to Matt’s words, especially the tired part. And like him, I have few illusions about either side of the political spectrum, even though some people still have this split-screen mindset in which the left side of the aisle is populated by legions of nose ring-wearing druggies and Che Guevara clones, while across the aisle, it’s a monolith of clean-cut, clean-living folks straight from the set of Father Knows Best. It’s the Green Berets versus the Red Berets, and it’s the stuff of fantasy.
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