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Wisdom from Grand Strategy Practitioner David Brooks:
National elections take place within a specific global moment.True, they tried to repeal the laws of physics in 2014, but Boehner couldn't put the votes together. It was doomed when Tea Party members insisted on a poison pill provision repealing biology as well.
In the 1990s, there was a presumption that we were living in an age of rapid progress. Democracy was spreading. Tyranny was receding. Asia was booming. The European Union was building. Conflict in the Middle East was lessening. The world was cumulatively heading toward greater pluralism, individualism, prosperity and freedom.It was raining gerunds. It was safe as long as you kept your windows closed. Twenty years later, though, it's starting to get old. And one of them, "receding", seems to have switched sides:
