Day 1,718: harbour, sugar-rush

At the same time, both Mr Trump and Mr Biden harbour populist and protectionist instincts that will only harm America’s growth potential. The sugar-rush of stimulus helped mask the damaging effects of such policies during each president’s first term.

Artwork of the day 
Fokstone harbour
John Constable
Style: Romanticism
Genre: landscape

Word of the day 
harbour: to protect someone or something bad, especially by hiding that person or thing when the police are looking for him, her, or it:
sugar-rush: an experience of high energy after eating or drinking a considerable amount of sugar in a short period of time, often associated with hyperactive children.

Quote of the day
“You’ve always been stone solid until now, like Joe Friday with no Y chromosome. Now you’re Nancy Drew on a sugar rush.”

― Dean Koontz, Prodigal Son