Well the metaphor can go suck wind, but the point is that he does things, one after another, that tend to make things better, and lets the howls and hijinks stay in the zoo where they come from. Sure, he would do better copping the heroic stance, and maybe he will at some point when the critical decision window comes a little closer. Timing is everything. But if he does not, he is betting on the deeper inner sensibility of the American majority, whether wisely or not I can't predict.


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