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Not sure that it's a poor as it appears.

It turns out, evidently, that you were much more correct than I.

However, I had based my sense on a diversity of presentations of his personna. And, I'd still be inclined to bet that underneath whatever liberal mindlessness rests some foundational values he may have learned the hard way and cast aside as not mercenary or modern or whatever enough. But he still shows some evidence of their mark on his life. He wouldn't have so much cleverness about them if they were totally foreign to his psyche. He wouldn't be able to be even so manipulatively convincing about them if he was the paragon antipathy of them that some of you make him out to be. He evidently is quite conflicted as to his foundational values. That's sad. It's sadly also not uncommon.