Greetings, Dear Reader,

Welcome back to State of the Day, where I strip the euphemism and misdirection of the day’s news and give it to you straight, no ice, no mixer.

Since we’re hours away from ending the first quarter of the century, let’s do a little review of our progress.

It hasn’t all been bad, but it hasn’t been great either.

25 YEARS, AND WHAT DID WE GET?

It’s truly hard to put into words how spectacular the bungling was in the decades following WWII. They might not have ultimately listened to Patton about Moscow, but they knew he was right. We could have annihilated communism right then. American hegemony was truly unmatched.

We could write the world, and instead we seeded it with an optimism (and paradoxically a cynicism) it didn’t truly deserve.

I’m not here to unpack the foibles of those decades, from trade to foreign wars, fumbled and then crumbled coups, Bill Clinton literally sending China ultra-sensitive technology that “enhanced the accuracy of China’s ballistic missile arsenal,” the fact that we invented everything and now make almost none of it … 

… merely to use them as a setup for the turn of the century.

It’s as if government elites in the 21st century looked back on all the mid success, punctuated by moments of stunning mediocrity, and said watch this.

It’s fitting the first quarter century is bookended by election nonsense. Just when I thought it was behind us, we find out Georgia improperly tabulated........

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