![]() ![]() He went on, "Pessimism need not breed fatalism or passivity. They need a talent for pessimism, recognizing the signs that whatever remains of American exceptionalism does not immunize this nation from decay, to which all regimes are susceptible." Will wrote, paradoxically, "Looking on the bright side, perhaps this election can teach conservatives to look on the dark side. They took more or less opposite sides, leaving this non-Washington-based columnist an opportunity to try to arrive at my own position on the question. ![]() Two Washington journalists I have long admired, George Will and Jeffrey Goldberg, had columns last week on the question of optimism and pessimism. ![]()
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