Faux Change

What will happen with the hunger for change?

I assume Hillary will win the presidency. I find myself going through an involuntary process of accommodation to the idea. That is an advantage of emerging as the inevitable nominee so early. On the other hand, a year from now, she'll still be hovering around, not achieving anything, but just being what she always was, the inevitable nominee. That's going to be really boring. What happens to the hunger for change?

— Ann Althouse, "They are likely to nominate a tough, tenacious, fatally flawed candidate."

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