Julian is probably going to win the presidency. Nils knows this. There is a lot Julian could offer Nils. “And NORAD?” “I know people died there. I don’t know how many.” The overlap of their rhetoric, how it had dovetailed in recent weeks, seemed so clear to him all of a sudden. The way they used almost the same wording, “debride the rot,” “cut the corruption.” The same lines. The same rhetoric. Oh, God. Did I do this?
