<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 4:57 PM Anton Sherwood via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i>
<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>Remember when folks were saying he did not want to be elected?</i><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4">I remember <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">that o</span>n the day Trump announced that he was running for president folks were saying he <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">had zero </span>chance of <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">b</span>ecoming the Republican nominee<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">,</span> much less actually becoming president<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">, </span>and th<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">ose folks</span> actually welcome<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">d his candidacy </span>because they thought he <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">was a clown and </span>would provide comic relief<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> to an otherwise dull political season. I'm ashamed to admit it now but I was one of those folks.</span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">John K Clark</span></font></div></div></div>