A German colleague at the conference asked where I teach.
“Illinois,” I said and he lit up like a Christmas tree. I never saw European colleagues react like this to Illinois.
“That’s where your next president is from!” the German professor exclaimed. “He’s amazing!”
I thought I was losing the plot because I haven’t been out of the news cycle for so long that I’d miss a new star in the American political firmament.
“JB Pritzker!” the colleague explained, seeing my befuddled look.
In Spanish we say this is like mentioning a rope in the house of a person who hung himself.
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