“We’ve made other countries rich while the wealth, strength, and confidence of our country has disappeared over the horizon” was how he summed up the American foreign policy legacy: a zero-sum game in which a penny spent—whether on an ill-conceived war or on the Marshall Plan—is a penny lost. “For too long, a small group in our nation’s capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost” is how he summed up the work of all the men and women who had come before him, in effect the entire political history of the country, which he now declared to be over: “This
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This dummy has lost more money in his life than any other American in history. A man who doesn’t know his privilege is a man doomed to bad judgement, bad character, and bad manners.
