One Of The Things We're All Going

As Thrilling As It Was, Speechwriting Is Ultimately Frustrating For Someone Who Wants To Be A Writer.

We're Not Free Because Other People Are Nice, Maybe Other People Aren't Nice That Day. We're Free Because We Expect The Institutions Of Government To Work Impersonally. That We Expect People In Government To Understand They Don't Work For The President Or The Prime Minister, They Work For The Government. And The Government Is Always There.

Partly Because Of The Desperate Economic Situation In The Country, What Were Once The Leading Institutions Of Conservatism Are Constrained.

So Little Of What Makes A Democracy Work Is Written Down. So Much Of It Is Just The Things You Don't Do. There Are A Lot Of Things That A Prime Minister Or A President Can Do And They Don't Do Them Because It Never Occurs To Them To Do Them.

Trump Is Not Just Unlike A Republican, He's Unlike A Presidential Candidate. The Whole Elaborate Presidential Process Is Designed To Screen Out People Like Donald Trump. And That Process Broke Down In Ways Quite Unlike Anything In The Recent Experience Of The United States.