It was a good speech, but the reaction was due to the fact that politi…

Mark Helprin
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It was a good speech, but the reaction was due to the fact that politics are madness, and even if one does not know it, a country in electoral season experiences flares of lunacy like the great storms that sometimes march across the golden surface of the sun. ✨ Mark Helprin (2005). Freddy and Fredericka, p.313, Penguin
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