Don't get used to it

One of the problems of human beings is also one of the great gifts of human beings. We can get used to anything. - Jeff Goldberg on the David Frum podcast (~June 2026)

We’re adaptable creatures. Those who lived through the Blitz in WWII eventually learned to get through the day. Ukrainians wake up and go to work under similar threat every day. It’s tragic but true. Adaptation helps them survive in a war zone. Our moral outrage is adaptable too. There is a Watergate sized scandal every day around Donald Trump. He released financial records showing he made 2 Billion dollars in the last year from his presidency. Most Americans hardly noticed.