Like to contextualize Nick Kristof’s Oregon governor thing you have to know about Tom McCall, the legendary 1967-75 governor who’s considered the founder of modern Oregon, like you’ll hear he was a newspaperman but it was like if Mississippi or maybe California had elected Mark Twain, or somewhere had elected Steve Sailer in 2002

the kids haven’t even heard of Royko

Mike Royko, the greatest Mark Twain since H.L. Mencken

(acknowledgements to Tom McCall, actually elected governor of Oregon)