A. “ Hope and Trust ” is a campaign slogan no one dares use these days – or ever. Indeed, it seems never to have been used, but every campaigner at some point begins or concludes a speech beginning with the sentence, “I hope and trust …. “ This is the candidate’s principle platitude. This is the phrase that enjoins the candidate to the voter, the stakeholder of the community. This is the phrase that conjures faith in the what the following predicate and object suggest. I presume no candidate will ever have the nerve to venture forth with this loaded couplet of terms as a slogan. While many hope for the better, and while many have trust better times are before us, none use it as a slogan. It doesn’t resonate with anyone - except in the negative. It asks just too much to believe. For the politician... Asking for trust is too much to hope for. Hoping for trust is asking too much. Hope is a vague term having individual meanings for each voter. Some hope for
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