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Jonah Goldberg

But if the choice is a cool president and 8 or 10 percent unemployment in a declining economy and a country that seems to be going in the wrong direction and structural unemployment for young people at 50 percent, I'd rather have a dorky president who fix

Jonah Goldberg

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The speaker is saying that having a popular or stylish leader is not worth the cost of serious economic problems like high unemployment and a struggling country. They would prefer a less charismatic president who actually works to solve these difficult issues.

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