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.
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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?
Make sure your son and daughter understands they don't get to decide when or where they go to war. It is rich, predominantly white men in the House and Senate that have the power to send children of other parents - but not their own children - off to die [and] be injured in a senseless war.
If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.
I don't approve of the notion that we should be announcing who should step down from the position of a head of a state unless we are seriously prepared to remove that person. But if we are not, if we are being prudent and careful, then let's also be careful with how we talk.
We have over a hundred political detainees, men against whom we are unable to prove anything in a court of law. Nearly 50 of them are men who gave us a great deal of anxiety during the years of Confrontation because they were Malay extremists. Your life and this dinner would not be what it is if my colleagues and I had decided to play it according to the rules of the game.
Increasingly, the state system has been eroding. Terrorists have exploited this weakness by burrowing into the state system in order to attack it.
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
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