The Friday Brief

August 9, 2024

Rick Wilson

Aug 09, 2024

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Joy.

We often experience a sharper sense of an emotion after its long absence.

That thing we all feel today, even a creature as road-hardened, weary, and jaded as I am, is joy.

I know it seems alien. I know it seems unreal.

This essay will be more personal than most because I’ve been wrangling with this weird, unaccustomed stranger of a feeling in politics and in my personal life.

It’s joy.

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