I'll see your twenty dollars and raise you ten.

And especially my wife Patricia, who spent weeks tramping with me through Lovecraft country

While an America in decline may throw up a more competent caudillo than Trump in time, it is difficult to reasonably conclude that it possesses the societal solidarity to wage a decades-long, global struggle against a near-competitor.

And Enid brought sweet cakes to make them cheer, / And in her veil enfolded, manchet bread.