Constitution was compromise. On paper and in the room. And they made a lot of mistakes. And that’s how the country was founded—on people making mistakes. But the power now is not with the people who actually try to do things. It’s with the critics. The second-guessers. The Monday-morning quarterbacks. It’s a Greek chorus. Life is being lived and narrated by everyone else simultaneously. And we live at a time when smart people will never speak honestly. Because they can lose their job, etc., based on 25 people taking them down on Twitter. So only stupid people tell the truth. Smart people just
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