I wrote an election-day preview for the Irish Times. I do this so that when my father is getting ready in the morning, he hears my name on “What’s In the Papers” on Morning Ireland on RTÉ 1. I got the text this morning. Mission accomplished. Also, it seems important to give foreign audiences an idea that American conservatives are motivated by something other than irrational hatred and sadism.

Anyway, here’s my lede:

After hundreds of bumptious rallies and many months of empty cliches, after the expenditure of several billion dollars between the two major campaigns and their political allies, after the public airwaves have been filled with so much befogging untruth and slander the very atmosphere of thought has become toxic, after the majority of citizens have been driven to hysterical dread that one or the other result is sure to destroy our way of life, it is the strange custom of my countrymen to suffer both candidates to live after election day, and for one of them to serve as president of the United States for four years.

Read the whole thing at the Irish Times.