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The impulse is correct: one should lower expectations immediately, and make excuses whenever possible.
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He called her speech to Congress a home run, to which she alertly responded, "I hope the bases were loaded". His first impulse was correct.
In a speech in Berlin in 2007 he said that this was "the right impulse; was morally correct, but failed to strike the right balance between realism and idealism".
At worst, these sketches just coddle the audience by reflecting all of their assumptions and prejudices back at them: Yes, Trump is dumb, his administration is full of venal lackeys, Jeff Sessions is creepy, Cohen is a crook, all of your obvious, knee-jerk impulses and prejudices are correct.
The merger impulse is there.
The impulse is no surprise.
The impulse is understandable.
This impulse is universal.
The impulse is poignant.
But the impulse is hardly new.
The impulse is understandable but misguided.
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