Quotes To Help Get us Through the Next 2.5 Years. Or, Trump Meets Plutarch, Harriet Tubman, and Others

One For the Road 1776 · Jun 23, 2026 · 10m

To read the full text of the podcast and the links to thequoted materials, please see: ⁠ https://erm76.substack.com/p/quotes-to-help-get-us-through-theWe’re living through a convoluted mess, but it’s also a messthat we have to untangle else the Trumps, the Vances and the Millers of the world will be dictating our future. And that’s one hell I want to avoid and won’t accept. Centuries ago, Plutarch wrote The Lives of the NobleGrecians and Romans. His biographies were meant to provide moral instruction and were, in a sense, morality plays that could be viewed as models as to how you should live…