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Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
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What it means
Our interpretation.
The familiar description of politics as working with what is possible is replaced by a much bleaker choice. Disaster sits on one side and something merely unpleasant on the other. The contrast makes political judgment sound less like achieving an ideal than selecting the less damaging option.
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