May 25, 2025

When I was a boy I was told that anyone could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.

Clarence Darrow (1857–1938), American lawyer and reformer, The Cynic’s Lexicon, Jonathon Green, ed. (London: 1986), p.61

Do you have such dreams for yourself?

For many people, realizing the president (or prime minister, or king) is no better than they are—whether morally, intellectually, whatever, is only slightly less a shock than realizing there is no Santa Claus.