The Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan has been on my don't-read list for awhile. As a native New Yorker she viscerally dislikes Donald Trump for reasons that likely predate his political career and may only make sense to a native of NYC. So be it.
On the other hand, she is a crackerjack essayist who does a better job of conveying, not so much how things are, but how things feel than most who practice the craft. I was interested in her reaction to the debate, the attempted assassination and the RNC just ended. Her most recent column ends this way.
We have, many of us, for some time—months, certainly the past few weeks—felt various degrees and kinds of horror. But oh these are exciting times. Things are moving, shifting. Again, this is big history. Hold on to your hat.
She captures the way I've been feeling about recent events, and expresses that feeling better than I ever could. These are indeed exciting times, it is big history, maybe even a major inflection point. And we're lucky to be living through it. An indication of this, I may have set a new record with 7 posts on Friday.
Maybe I need to start reading Noonan again.
