‘success in spite of himself’
“It doesn’t take an awful lot for a president to start looking good. If the expectations start really low, which they have done, it may be one win, and I definitely don’t rule out a kind of ‘success in spite of himself’ scenario. And then you begin to wonder if a left-of-Clinton Democrat in 2020 would be blown away. We’ll see. The fun thing about doing history is you really can’t tell at this point which way it will go. It could quite easily go Jimmy Carter and he could be a lame duck.” (The Guardian.)
Is the expectation an antecedent of they in the above?
Is one win a one term of the presidency?
Is ‘success in spite of himself’ a success in which, paradoxically, somebody succeeded despite being himself rather a sort of liability in achieving that success.
Is left-of-Clinton Democrat a Democrat like, for example, Bernie Sanders?
What does if a left-of-Clinton Democrat in 2020 would be blown away exactly mean in the cited context?
Does It could quite easily go Jimmy Carter mean that 'the Trump's presidency may quite easily end the way Jimmy Carter's presidency did'?
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anonymous Is the expectation an antecedent of they in the above? "expectation s " is the antecedent. anonymous Is one win a one term of the presidency?
- anonymous Is the expectation an antecedent of they in the above?
- "expectation s " is the antecedent.
- anonymous Is one win a one term of the presidency?
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- negotiating some treaty that is beneficial to the US, or whatever it might be).
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anonymousIs the expectation an antecedent of they in the above?
"expectations" is the antecedent.
anonymousIs one win a one term of the presidency?
No, it means success in one endeavour (e.g. negotiating some treaty that is beneficial to the US, or whatever it might be).
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