This year the message has gone out to the young, the disaffected, and the idealistic: Don’t hope for too much. “Don’t compare us to the Almighty,” says the politician, “compare us to the alternative.” Ironically, this comes from the same people who told us four years ago: Yes, we can. Thanks to the rhetoric of hope, our President and his party saw their most improbable dreams come true.
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