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"If the candidates are unwilling to say anything new and provocative, the media will focus on their misstatements and artless dodges. ... Playing it safe is the most dangerous thing Harris can do."

What’s more, if the candidates are unwilling to say anything new and provocative from day to day, the media, to the extent they cover them at all, will focus on their misstatements and artless dodges.

Like the Twitter-addled, red-leaning VCs in his orbit, he is coasting on pure capital momentum—the David Sacks method—totally artless save for the ability to buy a few news cycles.

Maria’s first story collection, “Artless Tales,” was published when she was 14; it did well enough to lead the sisters to hope that their literary work could support their mother while their three brothers were in apprenticeships and school.

That problem becomes acute in long, artless passages of editorializing — about, say, Ronald Reagan or the Catholic Church — that have all the considered insight of barbershop chatter.