YOU CAN BELIEVE DAVID LIBERACE LEONHARDT OR ME

But you can't believe both of us.

Or can you, you postmodern thinkers? 

After all, in some possible worlds, Leonhardt is right and I am wrong.

In some possible world, some things are true even if Leonhardt and I contradict each other there.

In some possible world, what he says and what I say are a tautology there.

When he says most Presidents are and have been good at keeping their campaign promises, take a look around at American history for a moment.

You can start at almost the beginning, with Jefferson, and how such a thing as buying Louisiana was the exact opposite of what he stood for, and had run on.

But I like, my personal favorite, is to just jump to Abraham Lincoln.

He promised his white Northern Republican base that he would rid them of the spectre of nationalization of negroes. 

It wasn't, for them, really, his base, so much about preserving the union as such at all, if you take a look at the actual Republican platform on which he ran and won: it was about getting rid of the perceived, and real, threat of negroes anywhere here. Lincoln was elected to be The Great Eradicator.

Lincoln broke what he had inherited, but it was never then or now a union.

Trump, as distinct from Jefferson and Lincoln,  has so far seemed to keep his campaign promises, as even Liberace admits, against all pundit odds, including mine here.

Mark 8:36, Matthew 16:26