After all, when has a radical idea ever prevailed in American politics overnight?
Had the IRA been asked to sign up to the same conditions imposed on Hamas today, no peace would ever have prevailed in Northern Ireland, and Britain might still have been subject to IRA attacks.
The key to his proposals is a return to the brilliant innovative insight of John Maynard Keynes in 1943 in preparation for the Bretton Woods conference, which determined the postwar international economic architecture that has prevailed ever since.
That led to the impasse that has prevailed ever since: In lieu of a deal, Louisiana got nothing, with the federal government simply holding on to all the proceeds.
Yet all we have gained could be lost in far less time than it took to gain it if those counseling disengagement and isolationism should ever prevail.
No wise voices ever prevail.
Face-to-face lectures, seminars and tutorials in schools and universities with bricks and mortar have prevailed ever since.
This vision has not prevailed.
So far, Ms. Redstone has largely prevailed.
That wiser view has now prevailed.
