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April 10, 2025

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.

Edmund Spenser (c.1552-1599), English poet, The Faerie Queen (1596), Jay p.347

Does this provoke thoughts of the little people you represent? Or are you the type that cares only for the big shots whose interest in you—after you are out of office—will fade faster than blue jeans washed in bleach?

If you want to take on the great, first get as many of the weak as you can on your side. In democracies, numbers often count and always in elections (pace America’s electoral college).


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