History is a slut

The following from Dorothy Rabinowitz in the WSJ:

Whatever the outcome of today's election, this much is clear: It will be a long time before Americans ever again decide that the leadership of the nation should go to a legislator of negligible experience, with a voting record consisting largely of "present," and an election platform based on glowing promises of transcendence.

Then she says that when Franklin Roosevelt died, an "anguished country" mourned as it had not done since the death of Lincoln.

Ah, yes. Lincoln. A legislator from Illinois with negligible national experience and an election platform based on glowing promises of transcendence. What a fuck-up he was!