Embarrassed by its Puerile Faith in Presidential Magic

Embarrassed by its Puerile Faith in Presidential Magic Is from today’s Washington Post column by George Will (original link): In the 12 months we have to steel ourselves for the next State of the Union spectacle, let us count the ways that this spawn of democratic Caesarism — presidency worship — has become grotesque. It would be the most embarrassing ceremony in the nation’s civic liturgy, were the nation still capable of being embarrassed by its puerile faith in presidential magic.