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?
In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
If we can deter the Soviet Union, if we can deter North Korea, why on earth can't we deter Iran?
Only 4 sets of people can vote for the PDP: (1) those who are intellectually blind; (2) those who are blinded by ethnicity; (3) those who are blinded by corruption and therefore afraid of the unknown, should power change hands; and finally (4) those who are suffering from a combination of the above terminal sicknesses.
Why should Iran have a deterrent strategy? Well, it's surrounded by hostile enemies. Both of its borders have been under occupation by a hostile superpower, the United States, which is constantly violating the U.N. charter by leaving open what they call the saying, 'all options are open' - meaning the threat of war.
There is an element of paranoia in this inclination to view any serious attempt at a compromised peace as somehow directed against Israel.
Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.
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