“I'll never tire of the people so vexed by me they have to insist I am irrelevant. I may be irrelevant, but I clearly matter to you.”

—  Jonah Goldberg

Twitter post https://twitter.com/JonahNRO/status/1038118908992081920 (7 September 2018) <br class="br">2010s, 2018

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