Tonight I have to face the fact that there is probably no hope for this nation and its people.

On the one hand I recognize that the polarization of our political processes is dangerously non-productive. We need to talk.

On the other, I listened to and watched some of the Republican Convention.

There is no hope. I can't bear to listen to them. I had to turn it off.

(I never realized before how sniggeringly smarmy Fred Thompson is.)