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John Hodgman

People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.

John Hodgman

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Running for president with genuine intent and actually becoming president are two very different experiences that create a unique bond among those who go through them. This shared experience is so unusual and exclusive that ordinary people cannot truly understand what it feels like.

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