Was Gary Hart the best president we never had?

Nov 15, 2018

The dumbest assertion ever issued in the history of American politics was purportedly uttered by Gary Hart to The New York Times magazine in 1987: ‘Follow me around, I don’t care.’

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James Kirchick

James Kirchick is a writer at large for Air Mail and author of Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington and The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age. He has reported from over 40 countries and his writing has appeared in many publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the Atlantic.

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