unfailingly

When the Addams Family movies came out decades ago, the main joke was that this strange-looking family was actually the most functional family we could find: the parents loved each other, the family members were unfailingly kind to one another, they stood together when the harsh outside world unthinkingly mocked them.

Never before have so many registered Republicans spoken at a Democratic National Convention, never before have so many self-identified conservatives called on their peers to support a candidate whose opponent has unfailingly denigrated her as “liberal.”

For the past 30 years, as policies towards Central American migrants have hardened on both sides of the Rio Grande, they have unfailingly kept up the same humanitarian gesture to the migrants who pass through their village.

The best lesson we might take, perhaps, in this wild two-week loopy Kamala binge is not just that our brains can rocket from despair to hope but also that hope brings about a surge in imagination and a generosity of vision that unfailingly reminds us of everyone around us, what they need, and why they matter.

The cigar-chomping, unfailingly upbeat O’Malley owned the Dodgers from 1944 until he died in 1979 and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2008.