Tom & Daisy 2012 | The American Conservative
‘Americans don’t care that the country is going broke and in decline; we just want a politician who can make us feel good, who can convince us that if we only connect with the right emotions, we can be born again. No repentance, no sacrifice, no relearning: just cheap and easy deliverance. You know who we’re like? These two:

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made”’