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Foolish Consistency Is the Hobgoblin of Little Minds? – HotAir

Joe Biden has been working day and night to secure the border. 

The border is secure. 

The border can’t be fixed without new legislation, and that requires the cooperation of Republicans.

Hey, I am going to fix the border crisis with executive action. 

If a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, as Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, then Joe Biden is neither foolish nor does he have a little mind. He and his administration have been about as consistent as a toddler on whether they want to be in a stranger’s arms. 

Of course, Emerson’s aphorism is largely bunk, however profound it seems on first hearing. If by foolish he meant sticking to doing the wrong thing repeatedly, then he is correct. But what generations of flighty people have taken from it is that logic can be…

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