There Is So Much Wrong With This Sentence in The New York Times
BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
AUG 29, 2017
There is so much wrong with this one sentence from The New York Times on Tuesday morning that it may be the single wrongest sentence in the history of wrongness, and of sentences.
Hurricane Harvey was the rarest of disasters to strike during the Trump presidency — a maelstrom not of Mr. Trump's making, and one that offers him an opportunity to recapture some of the unifying power of his office he has squandered in recent weeks.
When in the name of god has this president* demonstrated the power to unify anything except division and anger? "Recapture" implies that he had it in the first place, or that he's shown any indication that he ever wanted it. In the immortal words of the late Muddy Waters, you can't spend what you ain't got and you can't lose what you never had.
The lifeboat phrase there, of course, is when Glenn Thrush places this "unifying power" in his office, rather than in the president* himself. Again, however, this particular occupant of the office has demonstrated right from his inaugural address that, even if he believed in the power of his office to unify, he wouldn't know where to look for it. In that particular event, he'd be a guy who tried to turn on the lights of his office with the taps in the bathroom sink. But this most recent appeal for the vaunted presidential "pivot," which is likely to prove as vain as all the other ones have been, demonstrates a phenomenon common to many political observers besides Glenn Thrush, and a phenomenon that did not begin with elevation of this particular president*.
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