Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.
Interpretation
Political power tends to fill any void left by a lack of leadership after a party loses an election.
In this quote, George Will suggests that when a political party experiences a significant loss, such as a presidential election, it often faces a temporary vacuum of leadership and direction. This absence of authority does not last long, as political forces and individuals will quickly emerge to fill the gap, illustrating the relentless and dynamic nature of political competition.
In practice
This quote can be used in a political analysis discussion about recent election outcomes.
The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is not a testable hypothesis. Hence it is not a scientific but a creedal tenet - a matter of faith, unsuited to a public school's science curriculum.
The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture of complaint.
Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.
Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences.
The civil forfeiture law - if something so devoid of due process can be dignified as law - is an incentive for perverse behavior: Predatory government agencies get to pocket the proceeds from property they seize from Americans without even charging them with, let alone convicting them of, crimes. Criminals are treated better than this because they lose the fruits of their criminality only after being convicted.
Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?
The foundations of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality, and the preeminence of free government be exemplified by all the attributes which can win the affections of its citizens, and command the respect of the world.
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
My view of democratic socialism builds on the success of many other countries around the world that have done a far better job than we have in protecting the needs of their working families, their elderly citizens, the children, the sick and the poor.
Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the '90s.
A political problem thought of in military terms eventually becomes a military problem.
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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