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Cutting political ironies with a knife and pitchfork

Could we play Mad Libs for a second? The Economist on Country’s Elections:

Mr. Politician comes off as a very cautious, pragmatic, vague and increasingly shrewd politician … most can agree that Mr. Politician is hardly the perfect representative of the reformist, liberal nationality who have taken to the streets … “[H]e’s no radical reformer. But what’s happened is that simply by representing an alternative, Politician became a vehicle for the expression of the hopes of people who are far more radical in their reformist attitudes than anyone in the dominant power structure”…

President of a nation: “[T]he difference between candidate and other candidate in terms of their actual policies may not be as great as has been advertised. Either way, we were going to be dealing with a national government that has historically been hostile to another country, that has caused some problems in the neighborhood”