A difficulty of talking with people in Hong Kong about American policy is conveying the (to them) nonsensical idea that there is no deeper plan, and the leader of our country is in fact just winging it. Like John Mulaney describes it, we are ruled by a horse in a hospital.https://twitter.com/elianayjohnson/status/1161748600814219264 …
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"What's Trump's strategy? His long-term plan?" is such a category-shredding question to an American brain that it must shut down to preserve its sanity. You haven't felt misery until you've tried to explain Fox and Friends to an earnest, courageous HK teenager in 93-degree heat.
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America is the world's greatest adhocracy.
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Orwell was an optimist
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