That we’re all going to hell in a handcart and Trump is driving.
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Identity & self
Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Having gone through the depression of ’29, I’d hate to see the U.S. hit bottom and not come back!
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2011 source ↗
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