I do it too, when I see what seems like the first shoot of green heralding spring. I want to believe, and things like Frum speaking out, the reaction to Wolff’s book, hearing women roar, watching any of the many looped versions of Richard Spencer getting punched out, set to music, Mueller Time and Manafort in Manacles…they suggest I’m not crazy. Just that I have to have a little more patience.

Grasp enough straws, and you can weave a basket.

Now place the basket at the foot of the guillotine…