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Where the old Newt was a compelling meanie, the new one offers anodyne platitudes and empty uplift.
… [H]e retreats behind religious platitudes, empty sloganeering and half-truths."
Since I believe that "normal" Western politics is the politics of platitudes (and looking at Russia, perhaps we should not knock that), I am going to pick up my theme of our democratic, domestic rhetoric and come back to your turf, that of history, in a reverse manner.
My friend W. G. (Lord) Runciman, the businessman and sociologist at Trinity (quite a combination), calls it "recycled platitudes."
. The tapes overflow with Polonius platitudes: "Be true to yourself"; "People don't care what you know till they know that you care."