As Chekhov’s well-worn maxim goes, if a playwright puts a gun on the wall in a scene, someone must eventually fire it. Nowhere does this principle hold truer than in politics. If a statesman draws public attention to a problem long enough and deploys enough government resources towards it, the problem must, before long, be meaningfully addressed, or the statesman risks losing both the trust and the interest of the public.
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