According to our boy Non-Sequitur, you are leaping. You're only backed up by eyewitness, earwitness, and documentary evidence, so what do you know?
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Seriously, I think your and GOPcap's and TexConfederate1861's case is made on this score. This time it's our liberal friend who is standing athwart the train-tracks of history, waving his arms in the headlamp's glare and shouting "wishful thinking! wishful thinking! unproven!"
Nada ;o)
Cram it, boss.