The fundamentals are strong, my friends. The fundamentals are strong. The Democrats don’t go along, my friends, but they’re the ones who are wrong. Because what that word really means, my friends, is our great American workers. So anyone saying I’m wrong, my friends, is saying our workers are shirkers. So trust me to sort this all out, my friends. I’ve been in Congress the longest. American workers are strong, my friends. And those in the swing states are strongest.
Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”