Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson
“It takes a little time to warm up a bottle, and, sometimes, the wait is more than one of the little ones is prepared to endure, at which point there will commence ‘a veritable Wagner opera of alarm and distress and grief.’ I want to explain it: ‘You can have your bottle warm, or you can have it now. Choose one.’ But the babies aren’t having it — because they are, you know, babies. You, American voter, are not a baby. The American voter does not have that excuse — not that anybody would know it from observing him, listening to his absurd and incompatible demands, enduring his temper tantrums. You know the classic case: ‘I want lots of spending, low taxes, and a balanced budget.’ … Donald Trump’s imbecilic views on tariffs are based on the same refusal to accept inevitable trade-offs as is my hungry infant’s demand for his bottle before it is ready.” (10/21/24)