In two days, we are going to take out the trash in Washington, D.C., and the trash’s name is Kamala Harris. - JD Vance

I don't believe in epiphanies. I don't believe in transformative moments, as transformation is harder than a moment. I've seen far too many people awash in a genuine desire to change only to lose their mettle when they realized just how difficult change actually is.

Mamaw Bonnie herself was so terrifying that, many decades later, a Marine Corps recruiter would tell me that I’d find boot camp easier than living at home. “Those drill instructors are mean,” he said. “But not like that grandma of yours.

Out of the frying pan and into the fire. Chaos begets chaos. Instability begets instability.